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Aviation History
1952
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FLIGHT, 2 Afoy2i952 545 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval A viation News New European Commands GENERAL NORSTAD, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Air Forces Central Europe, announced on April 20th the formation of two Allied Tactical Air Forces for the de fence of the West European approaches and the support of allied ground forces. The new formations are designated the 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force and the 4th Allied Tactical Air Force, and are in the northern and central sectors respectively. The 2nd A.T.A.F. is under the com mand of Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster and comprises the 2nd British Tactical Air Force, the Netherlands Tactical Air Command, with Nos. 311 and 312 Squad rons of the Netherlands Air Force, and No. 2 Belgian Wing. The 4th A.T.A.F. is under the command of Maj.-Gen. Dean C. Strother, U.S.A.F., and comprises the U.S. 12th Air Force, the French 1st Air Division, including Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Squadrons, a Royal Canadian Air Force Division, and several squadrons scheduled to arrive later in the year. The commanders have been instructed to ensure that their command organizations are integrated to the greatest possible extent, and to develop training in accordance with the army formations they are intended to support. Ground Defence Training A POINTER to the form which any war of the immediate future is expected to take is evident in the new requirement that all R.A.F. officers, non-commissioned offi cers and airmen must attain specified standards of proficiency in ground-defence training. Basic knowledge of ground defence is to form part of the qualification for promotion for all ranks. It is intended to incorporate ground-defence work in the air exercises held during this coming summer. Officers and airmen of the R.A.F. MEETING AT FON- TAINEBLEAU are seen Lt.-Gen. Norstod, Commander of the Atlantic Pact Air Forces in the Central Sector with (left) Air Marshal Sir Robert M. Foster, Commanding H.Q. 2nd Allied Tac tical Air Force and Major-Gen. Dean C. Strother, U.S.A.F., Commanding H.Q. 4th Allied Tactical Air Force (see news item on this page). Regiment have been formed into mobile columns to supplement Army troops in operations against enemy paratroops. To ensure the maintenance of effective defence schemes, station commanders are encouraged to visit the R.A.F. Regiment depot at Catterick, Yorkshire, where the latest defence developments and techniques are demonstrated. Boyd Trophy Presentation T HE Flag Officer Air (Home), Vice-Admiral C. E. Lambe, is to present the Boyd Trophy to No. 814 Squadron at R.N.A.S., Lee-on-Solent, on May 7th. It will be received on behalf of the unit by Lt. Cdr. J. A. McColgan, R.N., at present commanding the squadron, which is expected to fly down from the newly re-opened naval air station at Machrihanish, for the ceremony. The Boyd Trophy, which incorporates a silver model of a Fairey Swordfish, was presented to the Royal Navy by the Fairey Aviation Company to commemorate the work of Admiral Sir Denis W. Boyd, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.C., for naval aviation during the period 1939-45. F.E.A.F Command A CHANGE has been made in the appointment—announced recently in these pages—of the A.O.C.-in-C, Far East Air Force. Air Marshal Sir Francis J. Fogarty, K.B.E., C.B., D.F.C., A.F.C., was to have been succeeded by Air Marshal Sir Thomas M. Williams, K.C.B., O.B.E.; now, however, the latter's appointment has been cancelled because of ill health, and the command will go to A.V-M. A. C. Sander son, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C. With the acting rank of air marshal, he will take over his new duties almost immediately. Lord Trenchard's U.S. Tour AS we reported last week, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Viscount Tren- chard is at present on a tour of Canada and the U.S.A. Accompanied by Lady Tren- chard, he left England on April 15th in the R.C.A.F. Canadair C-5 in which Her Majesty the Queen (as Princess Elizabeth) and the Duke of Edinburgh travelled last year. On April 22nd Lord Trenchard pre sented wings at a passing-out parade of 23 R.A;F. and R.C.A.F. cadets at No. 2 Navigation School, Winnipeg—the first to be held there since the war. He hopes to spend several days examining the potenti alities of Alaska as an Air Force base, after which he will go to Washington, via Edmonton and Akron, Ohio. R.A.F. Appointments THE Air Ministry announces that A.V-M. C. N. H. Bilney, C.B., C.B.E., is to be vice-president of the Ordnance Board, Ministry of Supply, from July 1st, 1952, while A. Cdre. (acting A.V-M. C. E. H. Allen, C.B., D.F.C., B.A., M.I.Mech.E., is to be Director-General of Technical Services, Air Ministry, from BY JET TO U.S.: On April 18th, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh P. Lloyd left Binbrook in a Canberra to fly to Offutt, Omaha, U.S.A. The flight was made via Keflavik, Goose Bay and Dorval. Sir Hugh, centre, is seen with S/L. E. Cassidy, left, who piloted the Canberra and F/L P. A. G. Barlow, the navigator.
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