Royal Air Force

Sub-units 25

• Air force Second Tactical Air Force
• Air unit No. 103 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 150 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 9 Squadron RAF
• Army RAF Fighter Command
• Air unit No. 121 Expeditionary Air Wing
• Air unit No. 124 Wing RAF
• Air unit No. 137 Wing RAF
• Air unit No. 139 Wing RAF
• Air unit No. 98 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 100 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 36 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 58 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 62 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 77 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 149 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 245 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 247 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 320 (Netherlands) Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 488 Squadron RNZAF
• Air unit No. 222 Group RAF
• Air unit No. 295 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 181 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 182 Squadron RAF
• Air unit No. 180 Squadron RAF

People who served 41

Prince George, Duke of Kent 1937–present Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke 1941–1945 Norman Tebbit Pilot Officer · 1950–1956 Brian Burridge Air Chief Marshal · 1967–2006 Ezer Weizman General T. E. Lawrence Robert Brooke-Popham Peter II of Yugoslavia Hugh Dowding Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall George VI Shlomo Shamir Major General Glafcos Clerides Reginald Maudling Anthony Barber Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk Merlyn Rees Cuthbert Sebastian Trafford Leigh-Mallory Hassanal Bolkiah Army General William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate Rex Hunt Stuart Peach, Baron Peach Air Chief Marshal Keith Park Prince Edward, Duke of Kent Princess Alexandra of Kent Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester Nicholas Medforth-Mills Officer Cadet Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester William, Prince of Wales Neville Chamberlain Guy Gibson Wing Commander Hussein I of Jordan Army General Anthony Greenwood Arthur Coningham Air Marshal Ian Smith Flight Lieutenant Cecil Parkinson Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth

Strength and losses

• Nominal Strength: 31,080
• Nominal Aircraft: 670

Movements

• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
• October 21, 1915 – September 30, 1918 Macedonian front
• May 6 – August 8, 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
• January 1920 – February 9, 1920 Somaliland campaign (1920)
• September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
• December 18, 1939 Battle of the Heligoland Bight (1939)
• September 15, 1940 Battle of Britain Day
• December 8, 1941 Battle of Kota Bharu
• December 8, 1941 – January 31, 1942 Malayan campaign
• January 26–27, 1942 Battle off Endau
• March 28, 1942 St Nazaire Raid
• July 7, 1943 Operation Turkey Buzzard
• August 17, 1943 Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission
• February 1, 1944 – May 14, 1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
• June 10, 1944 Raid on La Caine
• August 1 – October 2, 1944 Warsaw Uprising
• August 7–13, 1944 Operation Lüttich
• November 5, 1944 – May 24, 1945 Bombing of Singapore (1944–1945)
• December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge
• January 1, 1945 Operation Bodenplatte
• August 17, 1945 – December 27, 1949 Indonesian National Revolution
• May 15, 1948 – March 10, 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953 Korean War
• November 1956 Operation Musketeer (1956)
• January 20, 1963 – August 11, 1966 Konfrontasi
• July 20 – August 18, 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
• April 2 – June 14, 1982 Falklands War
• August 2, 1990 – January 17, 1991 Operation Desert Shield
• April 5, 1992 – February 29, 1996 Siege of Sarajevo
• April 6, 1992 – November 21, 1995 Bosnian War
• February 28, 1998 – June 11, 1999 Kosovo War
• September 11, 2001 War on terror
• October 7, 2001 – December 2001 Operation Crescent Wind
• March 20 – May 1, 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq
• March 24 – April 4, 2003 Battle of Najaf (2003)
• June 20, 2003 – December 12, 2014 Operation Herrick
• September 2006 Operation Medusa
• March 19 – October 31, 2011 2011 military intervention in Libya
• March 19 – October 31, 2011 Operation Ellamy
• January 11, 2013 – July 15, 2014 Operation Serval
• June 13, 2014 War against the Islamic State
• August 1, 2014 – November 9, 2022 Operation Barkhane
• January 1, 2015 – August 30, 2021 War in Afghanistan (2015–2021)
• February 9 – March 23, 2019 Battle of Baghuz Fawqani
• December 18, 2023 – May 6, 2025 Operation Prosperity Guardian
• January 12, 2024 US–UK airstrikes on Yemen