Author: Keith WilsonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445666014
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A profusely illustrated history of the command responsible for the RAF’s flying and ground training.
Author: United States. Air Force
Author: Headquarters RAF Personnel and Training Command
Author: 
Author: United States. Army Air Forces. Technical Training Command. Lowry Field (Colo.)
Author: RAF Handbook 1939-1945
Author: David WraggPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
It opens with a brief history of the service, followed by a chapter that reviews its situation on the outbreak of war. The chapters that follow look at the structure of the RAF, from the Air Ministry and Chief of the Air Staff down to squadron level, to include each of the Commands, including Transport Command (a creation of the war years). The main aircraft types used are listed, as well as a full listing of squadrons and airfields in the British Isles. The training of personnel, and such matters as uniforms, rank insignia, medals and life on a typical airfield, are also covered. The main battles or campaigns in which the service was involved are also described.
Author: Freeman Field U.S. Army Air Forces Pilot School (Advanced Twin Engine) (Ind)So Far From Home
Author: Robert KanePublisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603063706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (AAF) trained over 21,000 aircrew members from 29 Allied countries. The two largest programs, 79 percent of those trained, were for Britain and France. The Royal Air Force (RAF), fully engaged against the German Air Force by December 1940, was not able to train new aircrews. The British government asked the United States to train new pilots until it could get its own flight training program underway. Lieutenant General Henry "Hap" Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps, authorized the training of RAF pilots at select airfields in the southeast United States, including at Maxwell and Gunter fields near Montgomery, Alabama. Between June 1941 and February 1943, when the RAF terminated what became known as the Arnold Plan, 4,300 of more than 7,800 RAF cadets sent to the United States completed the three-phase AAF flight training program. Within three months, some of the same schools, including the phase 2 school at Gunter Field, began training Free French Air Force flight cadets. By November 1945, when the US government terminated the French training program, 2,100 French flight cadets out of the 4,100 who came to the United States had received their wings. This book tells for the first time the story of the RAF and Free French flight training programs in central Alabama, covering the origins, the issues, and the problems that occurred during the training programs, and the results and lessons learned.
Author: United States. Air Force. Air Training Command