RAF Shinfield Park, Reading Brampton Park in Cambridgeshire
Motto(s)
Labore Terrestri Caelestis Victoria Latin: Victory in the air by dint of work on the ground[1]
Engagements
World War II
Military unit
Technical Training Command was an organization within the Royal Air Force which controlled units responsible for delivering aircraft maintenance training and other non-flying training, initially in Berkshire and then in Cambridgeshire.
^Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 126. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
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the command as consisting of the RAFTechnical College at RAF Henlow and RAF Debden, Nos 22, 24, and 27 Groups, No. 1 School of TechnicalTrainingRAF at...
from 1936 the Command appears to have directed Nos 20, 21, 23, 24, and No. 26 Group RAF. No. 23 Group was transferred to TrainingCommand on 1 May 1936...
period. It opened in the 1939, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was transferred to RAFTechnicalTrainingCommand in 1942 and closed in 1945. The First...
Flying TrainingCommand on the same date. The remainder of TrainingCommand became TechnicalTrainingCommand on the same date. No. 21 Group RAF was transferred...
1940 within RAFTrainingCommand, and transferred to RAFTechnicalTrainingCommand on 27 May 1940. It was transferred to RAF Bomber Command on 10 February...
RAF Flying TrainingCommand (HQFTC) from 27 May 1940 until 1 June 1968. From 1940 until 1945, it was also the headquarters of RAFTechnicalTraining Command...
1945 the squadron moved to RAF Llandbedr and RAF Towyn was transferred to No. 22 Group RAF in RAFTechnicalTrainingCommand. Airfield personnel also supported...
Squadron RAF Regiment Bomber Command Communication Flight RAF Polish TechnicalTraining School RAF Depot School of Parachute Training School of Technical Training...
From 1954 to 1958 the site became RAF Cherhill, 27 Group Headquarters, TechnicalTrainingCommand. Demand for training reduced after the winding-down of...
mid-20th century. For example, RAFTechnicalTrainingCommand was a distinct unit between 1940 and 1968, providing training in aircraft maintenance and other...
primarily as a Troop Carrier Command base. Returned to RAF Control at the end of 1945, it was used by TechnicalTrainingCommand before being placed on Care...
Joint Forces Command. Other units include the RAF Aerial Erector School, No. 54 Signals Unit and No. 591 Signals Unit. Formerly an RAFtraining and fighter...
the RAFTechnicalTrainingCommand, firstly, as the Empire Radio School then, in 1949, a Signals Division and later the Debden Division of the RAF Technical...
provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to become commissioned officers. The College also provides initial training to aircrew cadets...
RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central...
in purely RAF-context in 1936 when Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and TrainingCommand were formed. Since that time the RAF has made...
mid-1947, RAF Hethel became a Personnel Transit Centre but was transferred to RAFTechnicalTrainingCommand. With the reduction of the RAF, the station...
2007 by combining RAF Strike Command and RAF Personnel and TrainingCommand, resulting in a single command covering the whole RAF, led by the Chief of...
March 1942, and merged with Army Air Forces TechnicalTrainingCommand to become Army Air Forces TrainingCommand on 31 July 1943. Continuing service after...
Headquarters TechnicalTrainingCommand. After the war it became a trade training camp for certain ground Signals trades. Many thousands of newly recruited RAF personnel...
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