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Report by General Smuts on Air Organisation and the Direction of Aerial Operations
Archives, In Storage, B404
This report by General Jan Smuts, a prominent South African military leader, was presented on 17 August 1917 to the UK War Cabinet. It recommends the establishment of a separate air service and is seen as the founding document of the Royal Air Force.
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- Formation of the Royal Air Force, 1 April 1918
- German Gotha Raids, 1917-1918 [1]
- United Kingdom, Bombing of, 1914-1918 {FBP} [1]