Air Ministry, London (1925–1926) Hillingdon House, Uxbridge (1926–1936)
Military unit
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.
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categories; defence and attack. The defensive force became AirDefenceofGreatBritain (ADGB) and the offensive force became the RAF Second Tactical Air Force...
Battle ofBritain (German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force...
the largest non-British contribution. By the end of the war, around 19,400 Poles were serving in the Polish Air Forces in GreatBritain and in the RAF...
The air war during Operation Overlord, alongside the Battle ofBritain, the carrier battles in the Pacific and the strategic air war against the German...
of No. 16 Squadron. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, AirDefenceofGreatBritain and then joined the Air Council...
launchers, for the airdefenceofGreatBritain in the Second World War. The rocket motors were later adapted with a new warhead for air-to-ground use as...
Tactical Air Force and the USAAF Ninth Air Force. Each supported their own nation's Army Group. It also had operational control of the AirDefenceofGreat Britain...
subcommittees and took overall control of the British response to passive airdefence. In April 1937, the Air Raid Wardens' Service was created which aimed...
Iran Women's Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia and its branches Air Fighter Zone, a zone of the AirDefenceofGreatBritain SMS language meaning "acronym...
fighter force was divided into two AirDefenceofGreatBritain (ADGB) for protecting the UK and the Second Tactical Air Force for ground offensive support...
Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, confederation of German trade unions AirDefenceofGreatBritain, the predecessor organization to RAF Fighter Command...
of supporting the Army in the field. Bomber Command provided No. 2 Group with light bombers; Fighter Command was split into the AirDefenceofGreat Britain...
from Hitler's Germany. He also broke up the command known as "AirDefenceofGreatBritain" to create RAF Fighter Command, RAF Bomber Command, RAF Coastal...
the end of World War II in Europe. On January 2, 1944, Air Marshal Roderic Hill, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief ofAirDefenceofGreatBritain submitted...
later at RAF Buckeburg on 15 July 1945, by being reduced to the BritishAir Forces of Occupation Communication Squadron. Lake 1999, p. 279. Lake 1999...
The Serbian Air Force and AirDefence (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије, romanized: Ratno vazduhoplovstvo...
Kingdom ofGreatBritain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the...
was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over GreatBritain. It operated...
August 2015. Cole, Christopher; Cheesman, E. F. (1984). The AirDefenceofGreatBritain 1914–1918. London: Putnam. pp. 448–9. ISBN 0-370-30538-8. Clodfelter...