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Upon entering all service all three V bombers were initially painted in an overall silver finish, with the prominent under-nose H2S radomes on the Valiant and Vulcan left in black, however, this silver finish was later changed to one of anti-flash white, the RAF roundels being adjusted in shade, and made paler, to minimise the absorption of energy from the flash of detonating nuclear weapons.
Prince Albert ( left ) at an RAF dinner in 1919 with Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard | Sir Hugh Trenchard ( centre ) and Christopher Courtney ( right )
Its active phase commenced in 1917, and ceased in 1959 when RAF Fighter Command left the aerodrome.
He left school at 14 and was himself a miner for eight years before joining the RAF.
When he left the RAF he studied at RADA, which he attended from 1954 to 1956.
Appropriated by USAAF pilots in France at the end of the war, it was left in Britain following the unit's return to the US, and taken on by the RAF.
Young then left the baracks and walked down the road to the RAF base and asked to join.
As Ermine Street extended north out of Lincoln and past RAF Scampton the map attached clearly shows an alternative course of Ermine Street curving left and forming a semicircle on a wide heading west of the Humber Estuary.
Instead, Trenchard, seeking equal status with Sykes, argued for a reorganization of the RAF which would have seen himself appointed as the RAF's commander of fighting operations while Sykes would have been left to deal with administrative matters.
One correspondent said that in 1941 at RAF Yatesbury a man named Dickie Lyle drew a version of the diagram as a face when the instructor had left the room, and wrote " Wot, no leave?
102 Logistics Brigade was relieved by 101 Logistic Brigade in late May Most of the RAF aircraft left the area with a few retained for patrols over Iraq and support of ground forces.
In 1946 Malan left the RAF and returned to South Africa where he joined the Torch Commando a joint project of the anti-fascist ex-servicemen's organisation, the Springbok Legion and the War Veterans Action committee.
RAF units and forces in Burma, the Netherlands East Indies, French Indochina, and Siam / Thailand left in 1945-1947.
The RAF would later inherit some ex-RNAS armoured cars left in the Middle East, and during World War II, the Number 1 Armoured Car Company RAF played an important role in the defence of RAF Habbaniya when the base was attacked by Iraqi nationalists.
When the RAF left the site became the Headquarters of the Quartermaster General and later Logistics Executive ( Army ).
One reason for this level of surprise was that a recent large Luftwaffe fighter-only sweep had encountered little resistance, confirming the Luftwaffe leaders ' belief that there were few RAF fighters left ; in fact Park had recognised this fighter sweep as a ruse to get his fighters into the air, but with no threat of bombing he had kept his fighters on the ground on this occasion.
It is one of the few full-scale RAF stations left outside the United Kingdom.
After 1966, it was no longer possible to maintain RAF units at Nicosia due to pressures of space, and so Akrotiri became the only RAF flying station left on the island.
What was left at the base is the flying unit that is permanently assigned to the base to this day ; No. 84 Squadron RAF, a search and rescue unit flying helicopters.
Later in 28 July Bombardment Group left Rapid City AFB, South Dakota for RAF Scampton, in the United Kingdom.
The 307th Bombardment Group left MacDill AFB, Florida for RAF Marham and RAF Waddington in the UK.

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Our meeting took place in May, 1961, during one of the Maestro's stop-overs in New York, before he left for Europe.
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.
Brabham had a poor season, scoring only four points, and — having run his own private Coopers in non-championship events during 1961left the company in 1962 to drive for his own team: the Brabham Racing Organisation, using cars built by Motor Racing Developments.
Franz Josef Strauss ( 1915 – 1988 ) had left behind the strongest legacy as a leader of the party, having led the party from 1961 until his death in 1988.
Lane left the team in 1961, but ill-advised trades continued.
Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 ( finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding !, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim ), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy.
This was the result of the annexation of Goa in 1961 by India, when Nehru promised the people that their laws would be left intact.
He left school in 1961.
* Trois Pièces ( 1961 ) for piano left hand
In the 1961 version of The Parent Trap, conversations between the twins were simulated by filming the actress ( Hayley Mills ) as she stood at the left of the frame facing right, then filming her again, standing at the right and facing left.
Urho Kekkonen ( left ), Sylvi Kekkonen ( second right ), John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961.
In late 1961, Smith left his job at CBS when a dispute erupted over a documentary called Who Speaks for Birmingham ?.
Charles Deutsch, wanting to stick to Panhard engines, left DB in 1961 to found his own firm ( CD ).
His colleagues selected him as majority whip in 1961, a position he held until he left the Senate on December 29, 1964 to assume the vice presidency.
Following a referendum on 5 October 1960, in which whites voted in favour of a republic, the Union became the Republic of South Africa on 31 May 1961 and left the Commonwealth in the face of condemnation of its apartheid policies.
Organized by CORE, the first Freedom Ride of the 1960s left Washington D. C. on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.
Naish left in May 1961, taking most of Convair's top people with him.
He continued to work up until his death in Fordingbridge, Hampshire in 1961, his last work being a studio mural in three parts, the left hand of which showed a Falstaffian figure of a French peasant in a yellow waistcoat playing a hurdy gurdy while coming down a village street.
Portugal was a founding member of NATO ( 1949 ), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( 1961 ), and European Free Trade Area ( 1960 ); it left the latter in 1986 to join the European Economic Community, which would become the European Union ( EU ) in 1993.
While Sutcliffe left the band in 1961, and died shortly thereafter, Best continued to perform with the band until 1962 when he was let go and replaced by Ringo Starr.
In their memory, a bronze sculpture of a raftsman ( Splavar ), created in 1961 by Boris Kalin, stands on the river's left bank in Celje.
Buck was re-hired by the Cardinals in 1961 after Blattner departed ; Garagiola left the following year, leaving Caray and Buck as the team's broadcast voices through 1969.
The bulk of Colbert's estate, estimated at $ 3. 5 million, was left to a friend, Helen O ' Hagan, a retired director of corporate relations at Saks Fifth Avenue, whom Colbert had met in 1961 on the set of the her last film.
In 1961, Davis opened in the Broadway production The Night of the Iguana to mostly mediocre reviews, and left the production after four months due to " chronic illness ".

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