Bill Wratten
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Air Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten, GBE, CB, AFC (b. 15 August 1939) was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Strike Command from 1994. He was educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate.
As an Air Vice Marshal he was Air Commander British Forces Middle East from 17 November 1990 until the end of the Gulf War (as such he was the senior air force officer in Operation Granby). He had previously served, inter alia, as Air Officer Commanding No 11 Group, Station Commander RAF Coningsby, Officer Commanding No 23 Squadron. He was the first Station Commander at RAF Stanley in the Falkland Islands after the 1982 war.
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Preceded by Sir Richard Johns |
Commander-in-Chief of RAF Strike Command 1994–1997 |
Succeeded by Sir John Alison |
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