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Mutiny in the RAF - the Air Force Strikes of 1946. David Duncan. 1999 ISBN 0-9523810-6-0. Review of Richard Woodman's A brief history of mutiny. Journal for Maritime research. August 2005. David van Vlymen. "RAF strike in India-1946". The John Carpenter Club. Archived from the original on 6 October 2007.
David Duncan, Mutiny in the RAF - the Air Force Strikes of 1946. ISBN 0-9523810-6-0. JCC, RAF strike in India 1946. Lake, Alan (1999). Flying Units of the RAF. Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-84037-086-6. Sir David Lee (RAF officer), Eastward: A history of the Royal Air Force in the Far East 1945–1972, HMSO 1984.
The Royal Indian Navy mutiny was a failed insurrection of Indian naval ratings, soldiers, police personnel and civilians against the British government in India in February 1946. From the initial flashpoint in Bombay (now Mumbai ), the revolt spread and found support throughout British India , from Karachi to Calcutta (now Kolkata ), and ...
January – Royal Air Force Mutiny of 1946 of British and Indian air force units 11 February – I.N.A. trial demonstrations in Calcutta, several killed; 12 February – Hartal in Calcutta over the killing of demonstrators the previous day
After HQ BAFSEA was merged with AHQ India, twelve RAF squadrons (225 Group: Nos 5, 30 at Bhopal, 45 at St Thomas Mount; 227 Group: 298 Squadron at Samungli with a detachment at Chaklala; No. 228 Group RAF: 176, 658 AOP, 355 at Digri, 159 at Salbani; 229 Group: 353 and 232 at Palam; and 10 and 76 with Dakotas at Poona) remained in India after 1 ...
The Royal Air Force mutiny of 1946 was a mutiny on dozens of Royal Air Force stations in the British India in January 1946. The mutiny began at RAF Drigh Road, now known as PAF Base Faisal, and later spread to involve nearly 50,000 men over 60 RAF stations in British India and RAF bases as far as Singapore. [1] [4]
On 18 February 1946, the ratings of Talwar, declared a hartal ("strike"), and refused duty. The next day the "mutiny" spread to the RIN Depot at Castle Barracks , and to ships in Bombay harbour. Demonstrations became violent and several arrests were made.
Post–World War II demobilization strikes occurred within Allied military forces stationed across the Middle East, India and South-East Asia in the months and years following World War II. American military personnel based in occupied Germany were holding mass parades for speedier demobilization and in the Philippines formed soldiers ...