Talk:RAF Bomber Command
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"Bomber Command's other main function was to provide tanker aircraft to the RAF." Are we sure about this? While the aircraft were ex-bombers, are we sure refulelling wasn't the job of one of the other Commands? DJ Clayworth 06:28, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
"Many of Bomber Command's personnel and squadrons during the war were neither British nor part of the RAF; a large proportion came from Commonwealth countries, or occupied Europe." Is this misleading? Whilst there were certainly many squadrons from overseas, the fact that their members wore RAF uniforms, flew aircraft with RAF markings, were under RAF operational command and their squadron badges bore the words "Royal Air Force" would seem to make one think they were part of the RAF. Greenshed 22:34, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Agree. The same point can be made without employing the "neither/nor" approach.--Buckboard 06:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- Maybe. But Greenshed's reasoning is incorrect: wearing uniforms which resembled RAF uniforms is not the same thing as wearing RAF uniforms. Using "RAF markings" and being under RAF operational command was simply a practical matter. And No. 6 Group, as an RCAF unit, certainly had a degree of operational autonomy.
- During 1943-45, No. 54 Squadron RAF was based in Australia, its Spitfires had Australian identifiers and it was part of No. 1 Fighter Wing RAAF. It still wasn't an RAAF squadron. Grant65 | Talk 15:39, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
