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Royal Air Force flying training and support units. UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 0-85130-252-1. Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. Tonbridge, UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59
Admittance was limited exclusively to males between the ages of 15 and 17½ and the Royal Air Force assumed legal guardianship of the boys in loco parentis. Initially, training was a three-year course, although this was changed briefly to two years for some apprentice entries during the Second World War.
Training for Victory: The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in the West. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books. ISBN 0-88833-302-1. Douglas, W. A. B. (1986). The Creation of a National Air Force: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force vol. II. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-2584-6. Dunmore, Spencer (1994).
166 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Colchester from 1939 and later at Douglas, Isle of Man, where it was lent to the Royal Air Force to train officers of the RAF Regiment. 168 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Aldershot; The Royal Armoured Corps Officer Cadet Training Unit was at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1944 to 1945
Australia in the War of 1939–1945: Series Three (Air) Volume I – Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 2000369. Page, Charles (2008). Wings of Destiny: Wing Commander Charles Learmonth, DFC and Bar and the Air War in New Guinea. Dural, New South Wales: Rosenberg Publishing. ISBN 978-1-877058-64-6.
The RAF List for 1938 records that it comprised the Central Flying School; 1-3 and 5-11 Flying Training Schools; the Packing Depot at Sealand; the School of Air Navigation and No. 48 Squadron RAF at Manston; the Station Flight and No. 24 MU at Tern Hill; and No. 27 MU at RAF Shawbury. [5]
Royal Air Force Operational Training Units (OTUs) ... arrived in October 1942. With the start of the war in the Pacific, the unit was declared an operational squadron ...
Training Command was the Royal Air Force's command responsible for flying and ground training from 1936 to 1940 and again from 1968 to 1977. Training Command was formed from RAF Inland Area on 1 May 1936 and absorbed into RAF Support Command on 13 June 1977. [ 2 ]