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[[File:Flugzeug Dornier Do 17 im Luftkampf mit englischem Jagdflugzeug Supermarine Spitfire.jpg|thumb|310px|Dornier Do 17 of the [[Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht)|Luftwaffe]] 1940 without fighter protection in a dogfight ([https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Feindflug_(Luftwaffe)#Luftkampf ''Luftkampf'']) with a British Supermarine Spitfire fighter: ''“War reporters managed to take pictures of individual combat phases during a dogfight. An outstanding achievement that demands coolness and fearlessness. The Do 17 keeps plowing its course, while the Spitfire curves downwards after an unsuccessful attack.”'']]
The '''Royal Air Force''' or the '''RAF''' is the air arm of the British armed forces since 1 April 1918, when the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) were merged.

==History==
It played a significant role in both world wars: in the first in aerial combat against the [[Luftstreitkräfte]] of the [[German Empire]], and in the second, together with the [[USAAF]], by its murderous terror bombings of [[Germany]] incinerating around a million non-combatant civilians and destroying over 1000 years of European architectural heritage, for no achievement whatsoever other than barbarism and murder. Possibly the most notorious of these attacks was [[Dresden]]. It also bombed and sank several moored German ocean liners being used for accommodation and refugee purposes, murdering those on board.

Between those major conflicts the RAF was kept busy in [[Mesopotamia]] ([[Iraq]]) where it dropped bombs as well as poison gas on the rebelling [[Kurds]] who were also machine-gunned from the air; and on [[British India|India]]'s North-West Frontier where it supported the British Indian Army in suppressing rebellions in the northern mountainous regions.

==See also==
* [[Phoney War]]
* [[Battle of Britain]]
* [[Bombing of Germany during World War II]]
** [[Bombing of Königsberg in World War II]]
** [[Bombing of Dresden in World War II]]

==References==
* ''The Destruction of Dresden'' by [[David Irving]], revised edition, Macmillan, London, 1985, ISBN 0-333-40483-1
* ''Dresden 1945'' by Alexander McKee, Granada Publishing, London, 1983, ISBN: 0-583-13686-9.
* ''Dresden'' by Frederick Taylor, Bloomsbury, London, 2004, ISBN 0-7475-7078-7
* ''The Fire: The Bombing of Germany 1940-1945'' by Jörg Friedrich, English edition - Columbia University Press, New York and Chichester, West Sussex, England, 2006, ISBN 0-231-13380-4
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