Bomber Command - Revision history

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 click [[RAF Local Residents]] for details of these men and women.
-'''A replica spitfire''' at the entrance to Bomber Command is a memorial to Don Finlay.   click [[RAF Local Residents]] for Don's illustrious service career (click [[Don & Joanne Finlay]] for more about Don)
+A New Spitfire model at RAF High Wycombe was officially unveiled in memory of a Battle of Britain pilot who lived in south Buckinghamshire.
 '''A replica hurricane''' at the entrance to Bomber Command is

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 September 1941.  Land for sports field site 4 from C W Raffety, estate agents for [[Walters Ash Farm]].
-'''Hallmark April 1968.'''   [[1968 Strike Command formed]] by mergers.
+'''Hallmark April 1968.'''   '''Bomber Command''' and '''Fighter Command''' were merged as '''Strike Command''' and a year later incorporated both '''Signals and Coastal Commands.'''
 '''Hallmark April 1975.'''  [[1975 Strike Command becomes the Headquarters of U.K. Air Forces]].   Click [[Celebrations]] for other such events.

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 '''Hallmark April 1968.'''   [[1968 Strike Command formed]] by mergers.
-'''Hallmark April 1975.'''  [[1975 Strike Command becomes the Headquarters of U.K. Air Forces]].
+'''Hallmark April 1975.'''  [[1975 Strike Command becomes the Headquarters of U.K. Air Forces]].   Click [[Celebrations]] for other such events.
 '''Hallmark April 1985'''.   [[1985 RAF Main Gates, Strike Command]]   Research by [[Miles Marshall]].

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	click [[RAF Local Residents]] for details of these men and women.		click [[RAF Local Residents]] for details of these men and women.

−	A replica spitfire at the entrance to Bomber Command is a memorial to Don Finlay. click [[RAF Local Residents]] for Don's illustrious service career (click [[Don & Joanne Finlay]] for more about Don)	+	'''A replica spitfire''' at the entrance to Bomber Command is a memorial to Don Finlay. click [[RAF Local Residents]] for Don's illustrious service career (click [[Don & Joanne Finlay]] for more about Don)
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		+	'''A replica hurricane''' at the entrance to Bomber Command is

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	click [[RAF Local Residents]] for details of these men and women.		click [[RAF Local Residents]] for details of these men and women.

−	A replica spitfire at the entrance to Bomber Command is a memorial to Don Finlay. (click Don ~~and~~ Joanne ~~Finley~~ for more)	+	A replica spitfire at the entrance to Bomber Command is a memorial to Don Finlay. click [[RAF Local Residents]] for Don's illustrious service career (click [[Don & Joanne Finlay]] for more about Don)

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		+	A replica spitfire at the entrance to Bomber Command is a memorial to Don Finlay. (click Don and Joanne Finley for more)

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 '''Hallmark April 1985'''.   [[1985 RAF Main Gates, Strike Command]]   Research by [[Miles Marshall]].
-[[File:RAF Main Gates Illustration.jpg|thumb|1987  Main Gates   drawing by Miles Marshall]]
 '''Hallmark February 1987.'''   [[The New RAF Operations Centre]].   (An exhibition giving the history of this RAF Command Centre from its inception.)
 click [[RAF Local Residents]] for details of these men and women.

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 The headquarters and officers houses were built on the north side of the Walters Ash to Bradenham Road and are in the parish of Lacey Green, their children attending [[Lacey Green School]]
-The servicemen and women lived in Walters Ash, where a NAFFI, church and playing fields were also constructed.  Land was acquired for this :-
+acres compulsory purchase from the Bradenham Estate for the headquarters and officers houses and some land on the west side of Walters Ash.
-rd May 1940.  Mrs Ishbel Ridgley sold eleven and a half acres of [[Speen Farm]].  click [[Ishbel MacDonald]] for more about Ishbel.
+The servicemen and women lived on the east side of  Walters Ash, where a NAFFI, church, school and playing fields were also constructed.  Land was acquired for this :-
-Land for school (site 3) from Mrs Emma Grace
+rd May 1940.  Mrs Ishbel Ridgley sold eleven and a half acres of [[Speen Farm]]. (east side of Walters Ash).  click [[Ishbel MacDonald]] for Ishbel.
-acres compulsory purchase from Bradenham Estate
+Land for school (site 3) from Mrs Emma Grace.   click [[James & Emma Grace]] f or more about Emma.
-September 1941.  Land for sports field site 4 from C W Raffety for [[Walters Ash Farm]].
+September 1941.  Land for sports field site 4 from C W Raffety, estate agents for [[Walters Ash Farm]].
 '''Hallmark April 1968.'''   [[1968 Strike Command formed]] by mergers.

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 click [[Wars]] for local details of the Boer War, WW1, WW2, & The Cold War
 '''Hallmark April 1968.'''   [[1968 Strike Command formed]] by mergers.
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 click [[RAF Local Residents]] for details of these men and women.
 -The headquarters and officers houses were built on the north side of Walters Ash to Bradenham Road and are
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 September 1941.  Land for sports field site 4 from C W Raffety for [[Walters Ash Farm]].