Mike Yared wrote:
Are the following RAF bases under Bomber Command during WWII or some
other
command?
Working purely from memory here, so corrections would be welcome.
Khormaksar RAF Station, Aden
I think it came directly under HQ British Forces, Aden.
Australia?
RAAF.
Ascension Island
Fleet Air Arm, wasn't it?
Bahamas
Bermuda
US got 99 year leases on all the naval and air bases under the Act of
Havana in 1940. There were some RAF OTUs in the Bahamas, but I think any
units nominally came under West Indies Command.
Canada?
RCAF.
RAF Minneriya, Ceylon
HQ RAF Ceylo, but was reduced to Group status in about 1941.
Cyprus
Malta
I think the bases were under Mediterranean Air Command.
Gibraltar
Mediterranean Air Command.
Hong Kong
Singapore
Far East Command, later AHQ Far East.
India
Air Forces in India, later AHQ India.
Kenya
Not sure.
Masirah Island RAF Station, Oman
AHQ Iraq and Persia, I think,
Cheers
David
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