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Pages in category "Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 335 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
On 30 January 2005 a Royal Air Force Lockheed C-130K Hercules C1, serial number XV179, callsign Hilton 22, was shot down in Iraq, probably by Sunni insurgents, killing all 10 personnel on board. 2006 2 September 2006 - XV230 , Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 of No. 120 Squadron explodes over Afghanistan whilst supporting NATO operations, killing all ...
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
He was a kickboxing athlete and world champion in the national team of Ukraine and was posthumously awarded as Hero of Ukraine. [19] [20] On 1 April, Yuriy Ruf, a poet, was killed while fighting Russian forces in Luhansk. [21] On 7 April, Oleksii Yanin, former world kick-boxing champion, was killed in battle in Mariupol. [22]
Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command: Firestorm. See: Bombing of Kassel in World War II. Augsburg: Germany: 25–26 February 1944 730 Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force: Firestorm. See: Bombing of Augsburg in World War II. Caen: France: 7 July 1944 400 Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber ...
Pages in category "Royal Air Force personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,447 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A relief fund organised by the local people made payments to victims and their families until 1959. [ 7 ] Much of the storage facility was annihilated by the explosion, but the site itself continued to be used by the RAF for munitions storage until 1966, when No. 21 Maintenance Unit was disbanded. [ 5 ]
16 September – In the second of three friendly fire incidents during the Laconia incident, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator receuved orders to attack the German submarine U-156 during the mass rescue of Laconia′s siurvivors, despite the pilot having earlier received a signal conveyed by a Royal Air Force officer from U-156 that ...