RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, outside High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. It is the headquarters of RAF Strike Command. The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... High Wycombe in the UK High Wycombe, (previously Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe) South Buckinghamshire, is 32 miles (51. ... Map of Bucks (1904) Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ... Strike Command is the successor organisation in the Royal Air Force to RAF Bomber Command, RAF Fighter Command and RAF Coastal Command of WWII fame. ...

During World War II the base was opened as the headquarters of RAF Bomber Command, which it remained until the formation of Strike Command in 1968. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... RAF Bomber Command was the organisation that controlled the RAFs bomber forces. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

High Wycombe has been home to Command Plans, Command Fire, Command Stats, Command Security (police), Command Regiment, Air Staff,, Command Logistics (Formally Command Supply), Command Org (Housed in the old Bomber Command building, Group Captain Org uses Bomber Harris' old office), Command PT&Ed (Physical Training & Education), PWHQ (Primary War Head Quarters) and SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe), CRE Airfields (Command Royal Engineers, Airfields).

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RAF High Wycombe is also situated roughly three miles away from the centre of High Wycombe, the station is situated over three sites all providing some of the services a conventional RAF Station does to create a fully comprehensive RAF Station. RAF High Wycombe is a non-Flying station, it is simply Headquarters to the RAF's Strike Command, which is headed by Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burridge. The Station is not Commanded by an air ranking officer (Air Commodore and above) although almost half of the stations personnel consists of Air Ranking Officers; It is however usually commanded by a Wing Commander. Strike Command is the successor organisation in the Royal Air Force to RAF Bomber Command, RAF Fighter Command and RAF Coastal Command of WWII fame. ... An Air Commodoress sleeve/shoulder insignia Air Commodore is the fourth most senior rank active in the Royal Air Force today, after the deactivation of Marshal of the Royal Air Force as a substantive rank in peacetime during defence cuts of the 1990s. ... Wing Commander (rank) is a rank in the Royal Air Force, equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in most Armies, the Royal Marines and the United States Marine Corps. ...