Aah, I wrote the Op Order and Admin Instruction for the move of Watton assets to Cottesmore, the swansong to my first RAF career
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Originally Posted by RAFEngO74to09
(Post 10626554)
No - Coastal Command was absorbed into Strike Command in November 1969.
Strike Command had been formed in April 1968 by the merger of Fighter Command and Bomber Command which became 1 Gp and 11 Gp respectively. Signals Command followed in January 1969 - then Coastal Command in November 1969 - then by Air Support Command in September 1972. And we ended up with the b0ll0x 11/18 Gp... https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....591c6127e.jpeg |
I can’t post a URL, but if you search Stuff NZ website there is an interesting article, including this “The VC went posthumously to RNZAF Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg. Born in rural Houhara, Northland, the 29-year-old was serving with the RAF's 200 Squadron RAF Coastal Command in West Africa when the B-24 Liberator bomber he was commanding sighted a surfacing German U-Boat on 11 August 1943 - 386 kms off the coast of Dakar.” |
Originally Posted by freemark
(Post 10632984)
I can’t post a URL, but if you search Stuff NZ website there is an interesting article, including this “The VC went posthumously to RNZAF Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg. Born in rural Houhara, Northland, the 29-year-old was serving with the RAF's 200 Squadron RAF Coastal Command in West Africa when the B-24 Liberator bomber he was commanding sighted a surfacing German U-Boat on 11 August 1943 - 386 kms off the coast of Dakar.” Jack |
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