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Pages in category "Royal Air Force squadron leaders" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 237 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In the later years of the war he held a series of squadron commands, and then was a wing leader. He was serving as a staff officer at the end of the war. Remaining in the RAF during the postwar period, he commanded No. 249 Squadron for a time before being appointed to staff roles for much of the remainder of his RAF career. Returning to ...
Llewellyn remained in the RAF in the postwar period, being granted a permanent commission in the RAF as a flight lieutenant, with seniority backdated to May 1945. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] He took command of No. 74 Squadron in September 1945 as an acting squadron leader .
At 24 years old, as a squadron leader serving with No. 109 Squadron (RAF), he embarked on what was to be his final mission, for which he received the VC. On 23 December 1944 over Cologne , Germany , Palmer was leading a formation of Lancaster bombers on a daylight raid to bomb Cologne's Gremberg railway marshalling yards .
The rank title squadron leader was chosen as squadrons were typically led by RAF majors and the term squadron commander had been used in the Royal Naval Air Service. The rank of squadron leader was introduced in August 1919 [ 3 ] and has been used continuously since then.
In fact, pilots skip the rank of pilot officer and go from officer cadet to flying officer on graduation from officer training school at RAF Cranwell. A squadron leader does not necessarily command a squadron, nor a wing commander necessarily command a wing, nor a group captain command a group. A group will usually be commanded by an AVM.
John Groves Topham was born on 18 March 1917 in Bradford, England, and was educated at Manchester's Stand Grammar School.In early 1939, he obtained a short service commission in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and commenced initial flight training, at No. 6 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School at Sywell, on 23 January.
No. 92 Squadron pilots celebrating their 130th victory; Squadron Leader Kent in centre. As the raids over France continued from RAF Fighter Command during summer 1941, Kent continued adding to his score with a Bf 109 destroyed on 3 July and another Bf 109 on 20 July before he was then moved again as wing leader to command and lead the Kenley ...