THE RAF

Family historians who are fortunate enough to have relations who served in the Royal Air Force and its predecessors have numerous websites at their fingertips. Alongside well-known subscription-based resources, there are obscure but frequently encyclopaedic labours of love, often focusing on individual pilots, planes, units, raids, squadrons and bases.

During the course of the First World War centenaries, and in particular the anniversary of the formation of the RAF itself in ). These include histories of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (1939–1949) and the Women’s Royal Air Force (1949–1994), alongside other topics such as the Dams raid, Afro-Caribbean and Polish personnel, Douglas Bader, the Battle of Britain and the Air Transport Auxiliary.