Use "raf" in a sentence

1. There was an RAF information officer whose task it was to put out the odd cover story

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2. We can talk hours about why his leaders continued their war, ultimately causing them to lose their Empire—a good thing), or how Berlin was bombed three times by the RAF before the Germans finally bombed London, and so on

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3. The Army types and some RAF types were setting up tents

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4. A few hours later, she had authorisation for a RAF Reaper to take off from RAF Waddington in Leicester

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5. She then took her eyes of the road and looking up through the great grey weather beaten skyline she spotted two RAF Tornado aircraft that seemed to almost collide into the glen as they swopped across the mountain range

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6. He was shot down in combat, either by Captain Roy Brown, a Canadian in the RAF, or by Australian machine gunners

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7. Senior Army officers, RAF, spooks from Military Intelligence, you name them and they sent a representative

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8. Never shy, his promotion to Major, and official transfer into the RAF, gave him increased stature

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9. god for saving him a pound and calmly strode into the old RAF

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10. At the Plaza in New York my mother met an RAF fighter pilot

11. He gave my mother his RAF pin, which I still have

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12. They usually became, RAF style, drunken brawls soon after the Smoking Lamp was lit

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13. "Grab her for God's sake!" Adam forced one of Kate's hands into the arms of the RAF man

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14. He changed back into RAF clothes

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15. He eventually worked as a programmer for the RAF before becoming an integral part of the Price Waterhouse company

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16. “I walked around the remains of this once splendid town and found sanctuary in the Central Railway Station that was now out of commission after a night raid by the RAF who had found their target many times over and the station was in ruins

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17. For Germany the failure of the Luftwaffe to overcome the RAF in the battle of Britain meant that Wilhelm Beck’s flying bomb went into huge production which made Wilhelm question the ethics of the factory

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18. VALLEY – that refers to RAF Valley on Anglesey

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19. Demery had tried to contact Group Captain Selby, the Station Commander at RAF Valley but had had no luck

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20. A flight plan for the Prince’s journey from RAF Valley to Abermôr was lodged at six o’clock that morning

21. We have an emergency and I must evacuate you as quickly as possible before this place is bombed to rubble in less than half a hour by the RAF

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22. hours,” advised Peter, “he thinks he’s still in the RAF

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23. rank of Flight Sergeant in the RAF

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24. ����������� �� That I could show you what the RAF looks like in 2012, or how this war was won by 1945, according to my own history of course

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25. ����������� The RAF officer excused himself with the young scientist he was talking with before picking up the telephone

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26. ����������� �This morning, a young woman showed up at RAF Northolt and served up a ridiculous story, claiming to be coming from the year 2012

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27. � What I am getting at, Doctor Jones, is that she has rendered valuable services to the RAF and that I, along with Air Chief Marshal Dowding, would take a very dim view of anybody mistreating her again

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28. � The afternoon had then been occupied by the myriad administrative steps and paperwork needed to officially accept Nancy in the RAF as a Canadian Army exchange officer

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29. � The RAF officer was now sitting besides her, a concerned look on his face

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30. � Seeing the sign from one of his customers sitting at the counter, he hurried with a fresh mug of ale, putting it in front of a fairly drunk RAF Leading Airman who was one of his most regular customers

31. � Since all RAF fighters had broken contact by then, the British gunners were free to engage at will any aircraft flying over London

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32. � It directed him to hand over all RAF aircrews captured over France on Saturday to the Gestapo for detailed interrogation

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33. � She straightened her hair and uniform before resolutely leaving the closet and walking with assurance towards the main staircase, looking every bit like a Luftwaffe female oberhelferin bringing in requested files about the RAF

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34. ����������� �On the night of the ninth day of September, 1940, Captain Nancy Laplante, of the Canadian Army Military Intelligence, participated in a commando raid suggested and planned by her, with the goal of freeing RAF aircrews being held and tortured in German-occupied France

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35. � On September the second of this year, a person from the year 2012 was brought involuntarily to our time, near the RAF base of Northolt

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36. � First was the Mark III directional parachute which, I am happy to say, is already in widespread service with the RAF and special units of the British Army

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37. Bill Hurst and his copilot, Steve Cheshire, smiled at Gridley�s question: a lot of RAF crews dreamed about the Canadian woman popularly nicknamed �Super Nancy�

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38. � Kesselring then noticed with no small surprise that two of the four British in RAF uniforms were women

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39. � One the RAF women then answered it in fluent German

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40. � Before he could say something, the female RAF sergeant waved her revolver at him

41. ����������� After a last salute to Brigadier Browning, Nancy left Gaoler�s House and walked out of the fortress, linking up with the three RAF women still waiting besides corporal Woolsey�s truck

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42. The navy captain was about to leave the bridge when he saw on the open deck a young woman wearing an RAF coverall, a toolbox in one hand

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43. � There are three more RAF women on the DOLPHIN

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44. � I guess that, when we asked the RAF for spare mechanics, they decided that this was a good time to pull a swifty on us

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45. Within three minutes, his five officers and single chief petty officer, along with Flight Sergeant Ann Sheldon of the RAF, were around the navigation plotting table with Bennett

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46. � On the spur of the moment, Bennett had all of his crew, including the female RAF mechanics, line up the open decks on the side facing the two battleships

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47. � The most damning part about it was when that old British RAF officer walked in, speaking perfect German, and answered the telephones in our place

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48. � Lisa Hartmann growled at a graying RAF wing commander and walked to him, then pointed an accusing finger at his face

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49. Going through the local operator, the Home Guard sergeant soon had the security officer of the RAF Fighter Command station in Rochford on the line

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50. The sleepy voice of the RAF officer suddenly denoted intense interest

51. It was airpower, and to achieve air superiority the Luftwaffe would have to neutralise the RAF

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52. Raeder however claimed the invasion could only start in mid-September providing Göring's Luftwaffe defeated the RAF

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53. RAF Fighter Command had six hundred and seventy

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54. At first German attacks were concentrated on the RAF airfields, and almost succeeded; the government issued codeword ‘Cromwell’, to indicate that an invasion was imminent

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55. The two thousand five hundred transports, consisting of barges, tugs, and light craft massed in the invasion ports came under intense attacks from RAF Bomber Command and Coastal Command

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56. Believing that British resistance would crumble, and that the RAF would be forced to use its remaining reserve squadrons, Göring intensified the attacks and his losses mounted

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57. These losses were shared between the fighters and bombers; whereas RAF Fighter Command, being constantly in action, bore the brunt and were soon reduced to less than one thousand pilots, who were rapidly reaching a state of physical and mental exhaustion

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58. Göring ordered counter raids on London thus diverting the Luftwaffe from its original purpose; that is the destruction of the RAF

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59. Göring had failed to smash the RAF; proving that the Luftwaffe was clearly not invincible

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60. During the Battle of Britain, several paramount elements favoured the RAF

61. But the difficulty facing the Germans was not beating the British Army; it was getting across the Channel in the face of the RN and the RAF

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62. So the RAF was at peak efficiency in July whilst the Luftwaffe had tired crews and aircraft in need of repair

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63. One can imagine the slaughter had the RN and RAF run through the barges loaded with men and equipment during the proposed Sealion crossing

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64. Meanwhile the RAF would be presented with many targets, such as barges, landing beaches and transport aircraft

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65. If the Germans are flying fighter cover over the barges; then these fighters are not escorting German bombers, leaving them unprotected against RAF fighters

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66. If the RAF had not prevented the Luftwaffe from gaining air supremacy, Churchill would have been replaced by Lord Halifax, who had supported appeasement and was known to favour peace negotiations rather than face a civilian bloodbath on British soil

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67. On 5th April 1941 during an RAF raid on Brest where the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were based, an unexploded bomb landed in the dry dock where Gneisenau was berthed

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68. In eight months the RAF had dropped four thousand tons of bombs and it was becoming increasingly difficult to protect the ships from this aerial bombardment

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69. RAF Coastal Command was, therefore, ordered to establish dusk to dawn reconnaissance patrols along the Channel; the navy also ordered submarine patrols during daylight hours outside Brest Harbour

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70. He was convinced they would not be exposed to the RAF who would surely sink them as had the Japanese to "Repulse" and "Prince of Wales"

71. Strange as it may seem, it did not seem to occur to the admiralty that although the RAF did have a most formidable bomber force whose primary objective was to bomb targets at night from a very great height; they had not been trained for the precision attacks on fast moving ships steaming at thirty knots whilst taking evasive action

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72. At this moment the Germans had their first taste of good fortune; the RAF Coastal Command aircraft on patrol outside Brest harbour experienced a radar breakdown during their departure and, therefore, was unaware that the German battle squadron had sailed

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73. Worse still, and this was inexcusable, the RAF had failed to notify the admiralty that the Brest patrols had not taken place

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74. The RAF orders were to maintain radio silence over the Channel and to report any sightings after returning to base

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75. The RAF officers blamed the disaster upon the fact that very few pilots really knew what they were looking for due to the ridiculous lack of information

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76. The RAF took full advantage of this opportunity and made her the target of massive air attacks; smashing her bows and foredecks

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77. At this moment sixty RAF bombers were taking off from England, bound for St Nazaire

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78. Especially as the person at the centre of this controversial and fiercely disputed subject is none other than Sir Arthur Harris the Commander in Chief of RAF Bomber Command from 1942 to 1945

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79. Private properties, including industrial sites were to remain undamaged, and the main RAF task was to drop propaganda leaflets over enemy territory

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80. The events on the afternoon of 18th December highlighted the futility of this ludicrous situation when twenty two RAF Wellington bombers raided Wilhelmshaven but turned away without attacking due to fear of damaging nearby properties

81. A fact that Harris chose to ignore because he was determined to flatten Germany and announced that he now intended to wipe Berlin off the face of the earth, which would end the war for the cost of about four hundred RAF bombers

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82. The RAF crews watched in horror, as bomber after bomber went down in flames

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83. If Harris had concentrated on this earlier, it would have grounded the Luftwaffe, thereby; saving RAF crews from heavy losses and in all probability prevented the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes

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84. It was made clear to him that he had no further role to play in the RAF and was accused of needlessly sacrificing highly trained bomber crews in the blind belief that saturation bombing alone would win the war

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85. The Italians were spotted by an RAF Catalina flying-boat

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86. The Royal Navy attacked the battleship on a number of occasions with midget submarines plus carrier based aircraft and repeated attempts were also made by RAF Bomber Command to sink her

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87. In mid-September, she was hit with bombs dropped by RAF heavy bombers

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88. The Supreme Commander would be Eisenhower with RAF Chief Tedder as his deputy

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89. It would require six months to repair; in fact the “Gneisenau” was out of action for nine critical months after suffering further damage from RAF bombs

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90. Pilot Officer Simson was awarded the DFC for this action, survived the war, enjoyed an illustrious career with over twelve thousand flying hours and promoted to the rank of RAF Squadron leader