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The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [7] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the second independent air force in the world after the Finnish Air Force [8] merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [9]
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
A Dictionary of mottoes. London: Routledge & K. Paul. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X. Rexford-Welch, Samuel Cuthbert (1954). Royal Air Force Medical Services Volume 1: Administration. London: HMSO. OCLC 1068597322. Rexford-Welch, Samuel Cuthbert (1955). Royal Air Force Medical Services Volume 2: Commands. London: HMSO. OCLC 872287803.
The Battle of Britain (‹See Tfd› German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany 's air force, the Luftwaffe.
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), whose members were referred to as WAAFs (/ ˈ w æ f s /), was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Established in 1939, WAAF numbers exceeded 181,000 at its peak strength in 1943, (15.7% of the RAF) [ 1 ] with over 2,000 women enlisting per week.
United Kingdom. United States. The UK-US relations in World War II comprised an extensive and highly complex relationships, in terms of diplomacy, military action, financing, and supplies. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt formed close personal ties, that operated apart from their respective ...
The Allied invasion of Italy, a phase of the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, took place on 3 September at Reggio di Calabria (Operation Baytown), and on 9 September 1943 at Taranto and Salerno (Operation Slapstick and Operation Avalanche respectively). Allied naval forces landed American and Commonwealth troops on the beaches of southern ...
Class A airfields were World War II (WW2) military installations constructed to specifications laid down by the British Air Ministry Directorate General of Works (AMDGW). Intended for use by heavy bombers and transports, they were the standard airbase design for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as well as United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) units ...