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2010 Death - Florence Green, the last known female First World War veteran who served with the Women's RAF in 1918, dies at 108

1990 Death - Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies

1984 Death - Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies

1977 Event - West German RAF terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht

1977 Event - RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer

1974 Event - Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison

1972 Event - West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof

1950 Death - John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80

1948 Event - 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires

1946 Birthday - Keith Mans, born in England, politician, born Keith Douglas Rowland Mans, Member of Parliament for Wyre, educated at the RAF College Cranwell and the Open University

1945 Event - New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF

1945 Event - 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)

1945 Event - RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm

1945 Event - RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511

1944 Event - RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway

1944 Event - RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed

1944 Event - RAF bombs West Kapelse

1944 Event - RAF bombs Munich

1944 Event - RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague

1944 Event - RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute

1944 Event - RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin

1943 Event - RAF begins air bombing of Berlin

1943 Event - RAF bombs Hamburg

1943 Event - RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam

1943 Event - RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)

1943 Event - RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde

1943 Event - RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde

1943 Event - RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"

1943 Event - RAF bombs Mohne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr)

1943 Event - RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea

1943 Event - RAF bombs Essen Germany

1942 Event - RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)

1942 Event - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf

1942 Event - RAF bombs Hamburg

1942 Event - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)

1942 Event - 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II

1942 Event - 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck

1941 Event - Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot

1941 Event - Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt

1940 Event - RAF bombs Munich

1940 Event - RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands

1940 Event - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe

1940 Event - RAF bombs Germany

1939 Event - RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen

1929 Birthday - Lord Craig of Radley, marshal, RAF

1928 Birthday - Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal

1926 Birthday - Raf Reymen, Flemish actor

1924 Birthday - Raf de Linde, Raphael van Hecke, author, Vaarwel on Gertrude

1923 Birthday - Michael Beetham, Marshal, RAF

1922 Event - 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Captain Turner, RAF

1922 Event - Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (New York City) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called

1921 Birthday - B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service

1916 Birthday - Raf Vallone, Tropea Italy, actor, El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon

1912 Event - Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)

1904 Birthday - Dermot Boyle, marshal, RAF

1902 Birthday - Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch

1892 Birthday - Arthur Harris, Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF

1866 Birthday - Raf[ael] Verhulst, Koen Ravestein, Flemish writer, Jesus of Nazarus













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