Support Command of the Royal Air Force was formed on 31 August1973 by the renaming of Maintenance Command. Its responsibilities included all logistical and maintenance support requirements of the RAF. Its role was further increased on 13 June1977, when it absorbed Training Command, making it responsible for aircrew training as well. The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
In 1994 the Command was split up, with many of its functions going to the currently extant Personnel and Training Command, and others being hived off into Logistics Command. Personnel and Training Command is one of two operational commands of the Royal Air Force along with Strike Command. ...
RAF Brampton is a Royal Air Force station near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire.
Formally the home of RAFSupportCommand, it now houses several elements of the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO), and provides a base for the Defence Security Standards Organisation and the RAF Infrastructure Branch (East Region).
RAF Wyton is the largest of the 3 sites and provides the principal home for Equipment Support (Air) (ES(Air)), the air pillar of the DLO.
Bomber Command came to prominence again in the 1960s, when it was at the peak of its postwar power, with the V force of Valiant, Victor and Vulcan nuclear bombers, and a supplemental force of Canberra light bombers.
The most controversial RAF raid of the war took place in the very early morning of February 14, 1945 with the bombing of the city of Dresden resulting in a lethal firestorm which killed several tens of thousands of civilians.
While the idea that the area bombing by the RAF of German cities, particularly in the last few months of the war, represented a regrettable or excessive campaign is widely held, the case that it rises to the level of a war crime is less widely subscribed to.
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