Global Information Lookup Global Information

Air Defence of Great Britain information


Air Defence of Great Britain
Active1925–1936
1943–1944
CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Branch Royal Air Force
TypeCommand
RoleMetropolitan air defence
Garrison/HQAir Ministry, London (1925–1926)
Hillingdon House, Uxbridge (1926–1936)

The Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) command comprising substantial army and RAF elements responsible for the air defence of the British Isles. It lasted from 1925, following recommendations that the RAF take control of metropolitan air defence, until 1936 when it became RAF Fighter Command.

and 24 Related for: Air Defence of Great Britain information

Request time (Page generated in 1.1064 seconds.)

Air Defence of Great Britain

Last Update:

Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) command comprising substantial army and RAF elements responsible for the air defence of...

Word Count : 656

RAF Fighter Command

Last Update:

categories; defence and attack. The defensive force became Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB) and the offensive force became the RAF Second Tactical Air Force...

Word Count : 2580

Battle of Britain

Last Update:

Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force...

Word Count : 26305

Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain

Last Update:

the largest non-British contribution. By the end of the war, around 19,400 Poles were serving in the Polish Air Forces in Great Britain and in the RAF...

Word Count : 4223

Air war during Operation Overlord

Last Update:

The air war during Operation Overlord, alongside the Battle of Britain, the carrier battles in the Pacific and the strategic air war against the German...

Word Count : 6651

Invasion stripes

Last Update:

aircraft of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, the Air Defence of Great Britain, gliders, and support aircraft such as Coastal Command air-sea rescue...

Word Count : 1785

Hugh Dowding

Last Update:

of No. 16 Squadron. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain and then joined the Air Council...

Word Count : 4102

Z Battery

Last Update:

launchers, for the air defence of Great Britain in the Second World War. The rocket motors were later adapted with a new warhead for air-to-ground use as...

Word Count : 1010

Allied Expeditionary Air Force

Last Update:

Tactical Air Force and the USAAF Ninth Air Force. Each supported their own nation's Army Group. It also had operational control of the Air Defence of Great Britain...

Word Count : 304

Air Raid Precautions

Last Update:

subcommittees and took overall control of the British response to passive air defence. In April 1937, the Air Raid Wardens' Service was created which aimed...

Word Count : 2562

AFZ

Last Update:

Iran Women's Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia and its branches Air Fighter Zone, a zone of the Air Defence of Great Britain SMS language meaning "acronym...

Word Count : 104

Air warfare of World War II

Last Update:

fighter force was divided into two Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB) for protecting the UK and the Second Tactical Air Force for ground offensive support...

Word Count : 21062

ADGB

Last Update:

Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, confederation of German trade unions Air Defence of Great Britain, the predecessor organization to RAF Fighter Command...

Word Count : 55

RAF Second Tactical Air Force

Last Update:

of supporting the Army in the field. Bomber Command provided No. 2 Group with light bombers; Fighter Command was split into the Air Defence of Great Britain...

Word Count : 1133

Edward Ellington

Last Update:

from Hitler's Germany. He also broke up the command known as "Air Defence of Great Britain" to create RAF Fighter Command, RAF Bomber Command, RAF Coastal...

Word Count : 1664

Operation Crossbow

Last Update:

the end of World War II in Europe. On January 2, 1944, Air Marshal Roderic Hill, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief of Air Defence of Great Britain submitted...

Word Count : 3783

List of Royal Air Force Communication units

Last Update:

later at RAF Buckeburg on 15 July 1945, by being reduced to the British Air Forces of Occupation Communication Squadron. Lake 1999, p. 279. Lake 1999...

Word Count : 413

Serbian Air Force and Air Defence

Last Update:

The Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије, romanized: Ratno vazduhoplovstvo...

Word Count : 3926

United Kingdom

Last Update:

Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the...

Word Count : 30635

Royal Auxiliary Air Force

Last Update:

first Auxiliary squadrons were included in the Air Defence of Great Britain in 1925. By the outbreak of war in 1939 the Auxiliary fighter, coastal and...

Word Count : 3603

Royal Observer Corps

Last Update:

was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain. It operated...

Word Count : 12294

Aviation in World War I

Last Update:

August 2015. Cole, Christopher; Cheesman, E. F. (1984). The Air Defence of Great Britain 1914–1918. London: Putnam. pp. 448–9. ISBN 0-370-30538-8. Clodfelter...

Word Count : 7802

1917 in aviation

Last Update:

Air Defence of Great Britain 1914–1918, London: Putnam, 1984, ISBN 0-370-30538-8, pp. 325-327. Cole, Christopher and Cheesman, E. F., The Air Defence...

Word Count : 8838

Escort fighter

Last Update:

F. The Air Defence of Great Britain 1914–1918. London: Putnam, 1984. ISBN 0-370-30538-8. Craven, Wesley; Cate Lea, James (1949). The Army Air Forces in...

Word Count : 3873

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net