Bomber Command

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Hallmark April 1968. 1968 Strike Command formed by mergers

Hallmark April 1975. 1975 Strike Command becomes the Head Quarters of U.K. Air Forces.

Hallmark April 1985. 1985 RAF Main Gates, Strike Command Research by Miles Marshall.

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.)

. The Royal Air Force Station for RAF High Wycombe is at Walters Ash.

Built for WW2 it was then Bomber Command, subsequently Strike Command then Air Command and the headquarters of the European Air Group

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Report in Hallmark. 10th April 1975 Strike Command became a major subordinate of NATO Command to be known as Head Quarters United Kingdom Air Forces. RAF Strike Command is by far the largest and most important part of the Royal Air Force and today controls all the front line combat aircraft in the UK and worldwide, with the exception of RAF Germany, The A O C in charge (a NATO appointment) is Air Chief Marshall Sir David Craig.

'The Bunker' of which we have heard so much of late, is not, as has been rumoured, to be a storehouse for nuclear weapons, but an-up-to-date control centre for the air defence of this country and our NATO allies.

The skill with which the huge pipe trench along Smalldean Lane has already been filled in and reseeded should go a long way to reassure us that the gigantic scar caused by the work on the 'bunker' itself will eventually merge into the hillside so that nature may finish the restoration.

Wing Commander Alan Oakshot. Lived in Naphill

Research Note Alan Oakshot is included in RAF Local Residents because it was he who suggested that the new Headquarters of RAF High Wycombe, should be built at Walters Ash, surrounded by the woods.

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The headquarters and officers houses were built on the north side of Walters Ash to Bradenham Road and are

in the parish of Lacey Green, their children attending Lacey Green School

The majority of the servicemen and women lived in Walters Ash, where a NAFFI, church and playing fields were also constructed.

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3rd May 1940. Mrs Ishbel Ridgley sold eleven and a half acres of Speen Farm. click Ishbel MacDonald for more about Ishbel.

Land for school (site 3) from Mrs Emma Grace

90 acres compulsory purchase from Bradenham Estate

September 1941. Land for sports field site 4 from C W Raffety for Walters Ash Farm.

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October 1940. Commandant. Squadron Leader J F Mehigan

3rd February 1942 Air Vice Marshall Arthur Harris (Bomber Harris). click Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris for more about Arthur Harris