PEACETIME STRENGTH OF R.A.F.
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 3. The Royal Air Force is to maintain a peacetime force of about six times its prewar strength, says the aviation writer of The Daily Telegraph. Compared with 100,000 men in the R.A.F. in 1938, there is to be a permanent establishment of 584,000 officers and men besides 68,000 W.A.A.F.s. These totals represent the considerable scaling down from the R.A.F’s peak figures in 1945 of 955,000 and 155,000 women. The big peacetime force will have plenty to do. About 50,000 R.A.F. men and women will be based in Germany in the British Air Force of Occupation, and the R.A.F., in addition, will keep strong contingents in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and South-east Asia, particularly Burma.
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Southland Times, Issue 25795, 5 October 1945, Page 5
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