After discharge from the RAF, he studied at St Martin's School of Art in London in 1949, and in 1952 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1955.

* Hugh Dowding-commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in 1940, Blue Plaque at 3 St Mary's Road

During the Dambuster Raids Royal Air Force missions in May 1943, the RAF Bomber Command's No. 5 Group and the operation HQ was in St Vincents, a building which was later owned by Aveling-Barford and housed a district council planning department.

Just outside the town, on the site of RAF Bury St Edmunds, is Bartrums Brewery, originally based in Thurston.

On 9 August 1941, RAF ace Douglas Bader bailed out over St Omer, France.

Waiting at St Nazaire were a large number of British Army support and logistic units, RAF personnel, Belgian, Czech and Polish troops as well as British civilians.

This concept of gremlins was popularized during the Second World War among airmen of the UK's RAF units, in particular the men of the high-altitude Photographic Reconnaissance Units ( PRU ) of RAF Benson, RAF Wick and RAF St Eval.

His other roles include President of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the RAF Benevolent Fund, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the Stroke Association, RUSI, the Royal Institution and is Patron of St Mungo's.

The RAF decided the stationary ' blip ' was a permanent echo of the 83m tall St Botolph's Church, Boston, and the object on the video was the planet Venus.

Despite protests from Germany as well as some in Britain, the Bomber Harris Trust ( an RAF veterans ' organisation ) erected a statue of him outside the RAF Church of St. Clement Danes in 1992.

In 1976 a stained glass window in St Paul's Church on Thornaby Road was dedicated to the RAF at Thornaby.

In 2003 the Welsh Guards experienced a unique moment in the their history when they moved from Aldershot to RAF St Athan, Wales the first time the regiment has actually been based on home soil in Wales.

A third facility, operated in conjunction with the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence is located at RAF St. Mawgan and is known as Joint Maritime Facility ( JMF ) St. Mawgan.

Żurakowski was first posted as a Pilot Officer to 152 Squadron before joining No 234 Squadron initially stationed at RAF St Eval, Cornwall, a town named after the patron saint of flight testing.

The Squadron's Liberators were based at RAF St Eval until after D-Day, when the unit moved North to RAF Leuchars.

Detachments also operated from bases such as RAF St Eval in Cornwall and RAF Aldergrove in County Antrim.

: 96th Combat Bombardment Wing, RAF Horsham St Faith ( Call sign: Redstar / Lincoln )

The floor of the church, of Welsh slate, is inscribed with the badges of over 800 RAF commands, groups, stations, squadrons and other formations.

When Whittle died in 1996, his ashes were buried in a church at RAF Cranwell.

On the church steeple are landing lights for the nearby RAF Waddington airbase.

The attack commenced around 7. 30 a. m. Canon Ivan Corea was preaching at the time, when according to the parishioners of St. Luke's, the RAF Hawker Hurricanes swooped over the church to engage the Japanese Zero fighters in dogfights above the skies of Borella.

Frank Whittle lodged at a house in the village while developing the jet engine at RAF Cranwell ; the remains of this house lie near the church.

* A website with personal memories of the RAF station by former airmen ( and sailors and soldiers )

* Official website for the Campaign to Save RAF Cottesmore

* Official RAF Benson website

* RAF Scampton website

* RAF website: No. 17 Squadron

* 11 Squadron, RAF website

* RAF Museum website

* RAF Museum Photo website

* The Official RAF Regiment Association website

RAF Chaplains official website

* Official RAF website

website run by former RAF Gatow civilian employees and others

The U. S. Army Air Forces in World War II: Leaping the Atlantic Wall Army Air Forces Campaigns in Western Europe, 1942-1945, Big Week Air Force history and museums program 1999, Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection ( backup site ) | date = 24 August 2004 | work = Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary | url = http :// www. raf. mod. uk / bombercommand / nov43. html | title = November 1943 | publisher = RAF website | accessdate = July 2008

* RAF Neatishead official website

* RAF website

* RAF website

* RAF website

* RAF Wittering website: Who is based here

* Wellingborough School RAF Section website

* RAF website

* Pilot's Eye Views of RAF Welford-Aerial photos ( April 2007 ) on Part 4 of UK Secret Bases website

* Official RAF Lissett website

The title of Thunder and Lightnings, a story set in rural Norfolk, is a reference to the British RAF jet fighter the English Electric Lightning and in turn inspired the name of a website of the history of that aeroplane and others of a similar time.