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    headquarters at RAF Andover to collect passengers: he was not on board at the time. Jordan retired from the RAF on 2 June 1958. In 1932 Richard Bowen Jordan married...
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  • Richard Jordan (1937–1993) was an American actor Richard Jordan may also refer to: Richard Jordan (RAF officer) (1902–1994), English Royal Air Force pilot...
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  • When the RAF was formed in May 1918, the total strength of the air force in India was 80 officers and 600 men. During the 1920s and 1930s, RAF India suffered...
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    as General Officer Commanding the RAF's Palestine Brigade. Later the same year, he accepted the offer of a permanent commission in the RAF with the rank...
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    The Red Army Faction (RAF, German: [ɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ; ‹See Tfd›German: Rote Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoː.tə aʁˈmeː fʁakˌt͡si̯oːn] ), also known as the...
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  • Gordon Herbert Vasse (category Royal Air Force officers)
    was posted to RAF Bentley Priory and took over as the seventh Commandant Royal Observer Corps from Air Commodore Sir Richard Bowen Jordan. "Gordon Vasse"...
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    Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (category Royal Flying Corps officers)
    280 squadrons to around 28. It was also during this time that the new RAF officer ranks were decided upon, despite some opposition from members of the...
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  • been 141 RAF officers promoted to air chief marshal and at present only one RAF officer holds the rank in an active capacity. He is Sir Richard Knighton...
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    Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butch" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the...
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    Commodore Richard Jordan. Having introduced the concept of annual ROC summer training camps in 1948 the Earl had formally opened the first two camps at RAF Thorney...
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