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Hi Vetinari, love this story of the crocodile!

Hi Ihagambia, yes formed in Singapore, it's really just a renumbering of RAF 243 Sqn, providing more identity to the Kiwi contribution

And Hi Driftless and Kelgar04, I'll be writing several stories on the efforts of Japanese night bombing and RAF night fighters, so I'm not going to comment here, but I'm happy for others to chip in if they fancy it :cool:

Units or Officers underlined indicates not historical to this Command For RAF units in Hong Kong, see Hong Kong Garrison OOB For RAF units in Burma, see Burma Command OOB GC: Group Captain WC: Wing Commander SL: Squadron Leader "op": operational "res": reserve RAF Far East Command AVM Keith...

and Hi Butchpfd and Driftless, just shows you how generous the American lend-lease policy could be. Lovely picture Driftless, and that's a lovely connection we've made with your family Butchpfd.

Hi Mark1878, yes that's what I'll do going forward.

Hi Draconis, not railroads, as they build airfields, but hold that thought for about, oh, twenty posts!

Hi naraht, that's a good question. In the main, its Singapore time, however, I've been quite bad at this in retrospect, as I'm sure some of my North African times are actually wrong (they maybe Singapore time and not of the appropriate time zone). And again some of the Churchill posts might also...

Hi Parma, things are going to get real busy now, and I'll advise you all to pay attention to the post's titles, the last four numbers after MWI are the day date, and hour of the day, which will be of great significance.

Hi Driftless, yes that's pretty much it, but you'll get a better idea when I give you the RAF OOB.

1941, Saturday 06 December: The big metal blade of the Le Tourneau Carryall bit into the ground, and began slicing off a layer of earth, rolling it into the hopper. In front, the Canadian driver of the D7 Caterpillar tractor pulling it looked back making sure his scrap line was good. Once full...

Hi Parma, that's a very good point, and as you say, until they are proved right, they are labeled in quite derogatory terms, but that then swings to them being labelled a genius. The truth is often somewhere in between, and the type of character to make that stand is likely to have a number of...

Hi Sekhmet_D, thank you for this, do you have any more detail on this unit?

Hi Belisarius, the little I have on actual operations, mostly from 'Bloody Shambles' have Japanese bombers flying in the 10,000, - 15,000 ft range, although I think I can find at least one raid at about 18,000 ft. Depends on your perspective as to whether that is high or not, but its certainly...

and as well as Hi Errolwi, Sekhmet_D and alspug, the FAA are aware of the deficiencies of the Buffalo as a Naval fighter, but these are a temporary solution to a lack of fighters, enabling them to field a training fighter squadron. They certainly won't be sending the Buffalo's to the Med, and...