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Headquarters East Africa (or AHQ East Africa) was a command of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) formed on 19 October 1940 by expanding AHQ RAF Nairobi...

AHQ often stands for "Air Headquarters" and may refer to Air H.Q. Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean Air Headquarters East Africa Air Headquarters (Pakistan...

(AHQ) East Africa under Air Vice Marshal Harold Kerby; Air Headquarters (AHQ) Levant under Air Commodore Bernard McEntegart; and Air Headquarters (AHQ)...

reduced to six AHQs (AHQ Italy, AHQ Iraq, AHQ East Africa, AHQ Greece (under Air Commodore Geoffrey Tuttle in 1944-45), AHQ Levant, AHQ Malta), plus HQ...

Force (AHQ East Africa and No. 246 Wing RAF) which operated anti-submarine Catalina flying boats off the East Africa coast and by the South African Air Force...

Lee, Flight from the Middle East, 1980, 295-7. Appendix A is the RAF Order of Battle in AHQ Persia and Iraq, AHQ East Africa and HQ British Forces, Aden...

Headquarters Middle East Command, as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Middle East and then as Air Officer Commanding AHQ East Africa. He became Deputy...

(Bomber-Transport) Squadron RAF, Bombay, Heliopolis AHQ Sudan had 254 Wing with No. 14, No. 223 and No. 47 squadrons, AHQ Aden had No. 8, No. 11, and No. 39 squadrons...

Air Headquarters Malta (AHQ Malta or Air H.Q. Malta) was an overseas command of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. It was established...

has reformed Number 11 Group which famously defended London and the south-east against the attacks of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. Niehorster...

vice-marshal on 5 March 1943, to serve as Air Officer Commanding, AHQ East Africa. On 2 June 1943 in the King's Birthday Honours he was made a Companion...

Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean or AHQ Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean) was a sub-command of RAF Middle East Command which itself was a sub-command...

King's African Rifles. In the last quarter of the 19th Century, the British began actively enforcing the abolition of the slave trade in East Africa. Concurrently...

28 and 32 Squadrons reported directly to de la Ferte's headquarters; the AHQ Communications Flight was at Lahore; a Target Towing Flight at Trincomalee;...

2007, p. 101. Sturtivant, Hamlin & Halley 2007, p. 188. "Commands - Med/Mid East_P". www.rafweb.org. Retrieved 21 November 2023. Sturtivant, Hamlin & Halley...

decision of the PAF's AHQ to cut its losses, as it had already incurred huge losses in the conflict in the liberation war in the East. The PAF avoided making...

operated switchboards and similar duties at airfields and air headquarters (AHQ). In the earlier part of the war there was likewise a Naval Wing, but with...

Air Officer Commanding No. 21 Group in 1953 and Air Officer Commanding AHQ Malta in 1956. His last appointment was as Inspector-General of the RAF in...

1945 it was flying Lockheed Venturas from Gibraltar, under the control of AHQ Malta at Valletta, but it left for home in July. It was disbanded at Idku...

station in Loutsa covered: Point-to-point networks of AHQ, Middle East Command, Desert Air Force, AHQ Iran to Iran, HQ. Aden, HQ. The Levant, as well as...