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... Force , with over 3,000 front line air- craft and over 20,000 more in reserve , and over 291,000 officers and men , was one of the two largest air forces in the world ( the other being the French ) . Nor did it lack powerful political ...
... Force , with over 3,000 front line air- craft and over 20,000 more in reserve , and over 291,000 officers and men , was one of the two largest air forces in the world ( the other being the French ) . Nor did it lack powerful political ...
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... force since 1918 : that of a ' single air service with a Ministry with the rank of a Secretariat of State and naval and military wings as integral parts of the single force ' . Such a force , as Trenchard had argued in numerous ...
... force since 1918 : that of a ' single air service with a Ministry with the rank of a Secretariat of State and naval and military wings as integral parts of the single force ' . Such a force , as Trenchard had argued in numerous ...
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... force and the other two services . 25 On 9th March a committee was established under the chair- manship of Lord Salisbury , the Lord President of the Council , with terms of reference that conformed to a considerable extent with Hoare's ...
... force and the other two services . 25 On 9th March a committee was established under the chair- manship of Lord Salisbury , the Lord President of the Council , with terms of reference that conformed to a considerable extent with Hoare's ...
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Wartime Missions and Postwar Politics | 38 |
Air Ministry and Shadow Cabinet | 83 |
India | 125 |
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