CoastalCommand was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). Founded in 1936, it was to act as the RAF maritime arm, after the Fleet Air Arm became...
RAFCoastalCommand was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal...
the RAF, with the aim of incapacitating RAF Fighter Command; 12 days later, it shifted the attacks to RAF airfields and infrastructure. As the battle progressed...
Bomber Command Centre RAF Bomber Command aircrew ofWorldWarII Target for Tonight List of Royal Air Force commands Seven of the VCs were to members of Dominion...
The Battleof the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in WorldWarII, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major...
The military history of the United States duringWorldWarII covers the nation's role as one of the major Allies in their victory over the Axis Powers...
Australia entered WorldWarII on 3 September 1939, following the government's acceptance of the United Kingdom's declaration ofwar on Nazi Germany. Australia...
for the Battleof Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe duringWorldWarII. The operation...
divisions, a tank brigade and a detachment of 500 aircraft from the RAF. During the Battleof France the speed of the German advance pushed them back, and...
The military history of Gibraltar duringWorldWarII exemplifies Gibraltar's position as a British fortress from the early-18th century onwards and as...
the battle under the control ofRAF Fighter Command between 0001 hours on 10 July and 2359 hours on 31 October 1940; the official beginning and end of the...
flying training school, during the Second WorldWar. RAF Andover was also used before and after the Second WorldWar for a variety of other aeronautical research...
217s.[citation needed] On the night of 18/19 August, RAFCoastalCommand carried out anti-surface vessel patrols of the coast from Boulogne to Cherbourg;...
home front duringWorldWarII was a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major impact on the outcome of the war. Governments...
early in the Second WorldWar. During the "Phoney War" the type achieved the distinction of scoring the first aerial victory of an RAF aircraft in the conflict...
component in all theaters ofWorldWarII and, together with anti-aircraft warfare, consumed a large fraction of the industrial output of the major powers. Germany...
lost the Battleof Britain and the German air fleets (Luftflotten) were ordered to attack London, to draw RAF Fighter Command into a battleof annihilation...
production duringWorldWarII was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the...
forces fought on the Allied side in each theater ofWorldWarII before, during, and after the Battleof France. Even though those forces participated in...
During the Second WorldWar (1939–1945), India was a part of the British Empire. British India officially declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939...