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1955
1955 - 1491.PDF
7 October 1955 Soon to take up new °PP°f">*»*(™'below) an,(left to right) Air Marshal Sir George Mills, Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst and A.V-M. the Earl of Bandon. An Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry (right) is retiring. SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News HIGH COMMAND CHANGES/CONSIDERABLE changes in the higher ^ command structure of the Royal AirForce have now been officially announced. The principal result of these re-appoint-ments is that a number of senior officers will be retired during the next year, makingway for the promotion of officers who in the main had operational flying experi-ence in World War 2. There is, however, no firm indication that the promotionshave been made solely with this factor in mind. For the first time, also, the Chiefof the Air Staff is likely to be a graduate of Cranwell. Hitherto C.A.S.s had servedin one of the other Services during World War 1 before joining the R.A.F. Appointments already made public—the names were announced last week—are the following:— Air Marshal Sir George Mills, nowA.O.C-in-_C. Bomber Command, is to succeed Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embryas Commander Allied Air Forces Central Europe. He will hold the acting rank ofair chief marshal. Sir Basil is to be retired from the Service. Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst isto be A.O.C-in-C. Bomber Command. He will be succeeded as C-in-C. 2nd T.A.F.,Germany, by A.V-M. the Earl of Bandon, who will assume the acting rank of airmarshal. This appointment carries with it the NATO command of 2nd T.A.F. A.V-M. R. B. Jordan, with the acting rank of air marshal, is to becomeA.O.C-in-C. Maintenance Command in place of Air Marshal Sir Gordon Harvey,who is retiring. A.V-M. R. L. R. Atcherley, with theacting rank of air marshal, is to be A.O.C-in-C. Flying Training Commandin place of Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Pendred, who has retired.A.V-M. G. E. Nicholetts is to be A.O.C. Malta, assuming the acting rank of airmarshal, in place of Air Marshal Sir Bryan Reynolds, whose next appointmentwill be announced later. A.V-M. Nicholetts' appointment carries with itthe NATO post of Air Deputy to the Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Medi-terranean. In addition, A.V-M. G. D. Harvey willbecome A.C.A.S. (Training) and A.V-M. A. D. Selway will command the R.A.F.Staff, British Joint Services Mission, in Washington. A.V-M. Selway was until re-cently air attache in Paris. All these appointments will take effecttoward the end of this year, or in January 1956. It was earlier announced that AirChief Marshal Sir William Dickson, the present C.A.S., would continue in thisposition for an extra year until January 1957. It is reported that he will then besucceeded as C.A.S. by Air Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle, the present A.O.C-in-C.Fighter Command. Exercise "Sea Enterprise" '"THE carrier task force exercise in Nor-•*• wegian waters ended on Wednesday of last week, the actions being consideredto have produced satisfactory exercise for the forces engaged. Bad weather, thoughit hindered some operations, gave ships and aircraft good experience of operatingunder those conditions. A wide variety of aircraft was engaged,including Coastal Command Neptunes, Shackletons and Sunderlands, carrier-borne Sea Hawks and Wyverns and a helicopter anti-submarine squadron of theFleet Air Arm. A force of surface raiders was spottedand shadowed by aircraft and a force of Blue (friendly) ships sent to engage it.Orange (enemy) submarines were also active and claimed to have attacked suc-cessfully one of the carriers and a cruiser. Shore-based aircraft made an "effective"attack on one of the carriers just as she was recovering her aircraft soon afterdawn. One of the main operations during "SeaEnterprise" was the replenishment exer- cise, when the carriers refuelled and tookon stores from supply ships to the south of the battle area. These were escortedby the Canadian carrier Magnificent. Bad weather here delayed proceedings to someextent. A number of strikes were made againsttargets on the Norwegian mainland by carrier aircraft, which were intercepted byNorwegian F-84s and Sea Hawks from Lossiemouth, temporarily based with them. Two surface raiders, H.M.S. Apollo andDecoy, were first spotted near Trondjem by a AD-3W Skyraider from a carrierand subsequently shadowed by shore- based Shackletons.A number of other NATO sea/air exer- Also involved in the recently announced command changes are (left to right) A.V-M. R. B. Jordan, A.V-M. R. L R. Atcherley, A.V-M. G. E. Nicholetts and A.V-M. A. D. Selway.
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