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Royal Air Force News Friday, May 17, 2019 P3

“ This was our first

chance to secure a
Challenge Cup place We could see
RAF and Luftwaffe
and we fought hard to “ “ Like Amélie, I sometimes
secure it Typhoons side struggle to connect with the
”
by side on QRA world in a normal way ”
missions
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XI(F) Sqn Actress
Audrey
Commanding Brisson,
Officer Wg Cdr star of
Paul O’Grady on Amélie The
policing Nato’s Musical,
skies in the Baltic
Flt Lt Linda McLean, p9 now on
RAF ladies RL team tour
captain on her side’s RnR p4-5
historic win p35

Service

to mark

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Staff Reporter

NEWLY APPOINTED Defence
Secretary Penny Mordaunt joined
Forces chiefs and Prince William
for a service to mark 50 years
RAF News of the UK’s submarine nuclear
Room 68 deterrent.
Lancaster Building Prior to the ceremony at
HQ Air Command Westminster Abbey, First Sea
High Wycombe Lord Admiral Sir Philip Jones,
Buckinghamshire announced HMS King George VI
HP14 4UE as Britain’s fourth Dreadnought
submarine – and the first to
Editor: Simon Williams carry a Royal title.
Email: editor@rafnews.co.uk Mordaunt said:
Tel: 01494 497412 “Operation Relentless
has seen generations
Sports Editor: Daniel Abrahams of submariners from LANDMARK DATE: Penny
Email: sports@rafnews.co.uk HMS Resolution Mordaunt with First Sea Lord
Tel: 01494 497563 to HMS Vengeance Sir Philip Jones and Prince
on constant watch, William at Westminster. Inset
left, Chief of the Air Staff
Features Editor: Tracey Allen for every minute of Sir Stpehen Hillier and Lady
Email: tracey.allen@rafnews.co.uk every day for the last Hillier arrive for the service
Tel: 01494 497622 five decades. This is the
longest military operation
News Editor: Simon Mander we have ever undertaken and
continues right this minute deep
All advertising: under the sea.”
Edwin Rodrigues
Tel: 07482 571535
Email: edwin.rodrigues@rafnews. This Week In History
co.uk
Subscriptions and 1941
distribution:
Johnstone Publishing Ltd Crete evacuated
26 Whitehall Road by Sunderlands
Leeds
LS12 1BE
Tel: 0207 855 7574 The last airworthy craft on Crete
Email: rafnews@jpress.co.uk were evacuated following intense
Luftwaffe air attacks – as Allied
Forces withdrew from the island.
1982
Harriers deliver
for Hermes 1957
Operation Corporate: No 1(F) Operation Flintham The Vulcan entered squadron
Sqn from HMS Hermes flew service with No.83 Sqn at RAF
its first operational sortie when THE RAF/USAF Memorandum Waddington.
two Harriers were vectored of Understanding on supply of Extracts from The Royal Air Force
towards a ‘bogey’ at 30,000ft. atomic weapons and co-ordination Day By Day by Air Cdre Graham
of nuclear strike plans was signed. Pitchfork (Sutton Publishing).