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Army Air Forces Historical Office Headquarters, Participation of the Ninth & Twelfth Air Forces in the Sicilian Campaign, Army Air Forces Historical Study No. 37, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1945.
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Army Air Forces Historical Office Headquarters, Participation of the Ninth & Twelfth Air Forces in the Sicilian Campaign, Army Air Forces Historical Study No. 37, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1945.
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Craven, Wesley F. and James L. Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume 2, Chicago, Illinois: Chicago University Press, 1949 (Reprinted 1983,
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Craven, Wesley F. and James L. Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume 2, Chicago, Illinois: Chicago University Press, 1949 (Reprinted 1983,
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Howe, George F., Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West, Center of Military History, Washington, DC., 1991.
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in the receiving, preparing, and dispatching of aircraft reinforcements into the North African and
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in January 1943. On 25 March 1943, No. 216 Group also became a sub-command of the newly created
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Richards, D. and H. Saunders, The Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (Volume 2, HMSO, 1953).
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in the Sudan by redesignating No 2 (Middle East) Ferry Control within 216 Group.
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No. 216 (Air Transport and Ferry) Group was disbanded on 26 October 1946.
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on 9 September 1942 and placed under the command of Air Commodore
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On 7 May 1944, No 115 (Transport) Wing RAF was established at
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United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force group
RAF Middle East Command
RAF Transport Command
World War II
Air Commodore
Whitney Straight
Royal Air Force
World War II
Whitney Straight
Mediterranean Air Command
Casablanca Conference
Transport Command
Frederick Bowhill
British Overseas Airways Corporation
Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Allied invasion of Sicily
Whitney Straight
17 Squadron SAAF
28 Squadron SAAF
No. 117 Squadron RAF
RAF Castel Benito
No. 173 Squadron RAF
No. 216 Squadron RAF
No. 230 Squadron RAF
No. 267 Squadron RAF
Wadi Seidna

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