APPOINTMENT - The appointment has been announced by the Air Ministry of Air Vice Marshal Gerald Ernest Gibbs, CIE.,CBE.,MC., to Headquarters Transport Command, as Senior Air Staff Officer. left to right - Air Vice Marshal , Air Vice Marshal Harcourt Smith, Senior Air Staff Officer, , and Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air C-in-C SEAC. This photograph which was taken at Singapore just after the Japs had surrendered, is particularly interesting today, as during the Battle of Britain these three officers played an important part in Fighter Group, a
APPOINTMENT - The appointment has been announced by the Air Ministry of Air Vice Marshal Gerald Ernest Gibbs, CIE.,CBE.,MC., to Headquarters Transport Command, as Senior Air Staff Officer. left to right - Air Vice Marshal , Air Vice Marshal Harcourt Smith, Senior Air Staff Officer, , and Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air C-in-C SEAC. This photograph which was taken at Singapore just after the Japs had surrendered, is particularly interesting today, as during the Battle of Britain these three officers played an important part in Fighter Group, actions against the German attack and it was commanded by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park who had Air Vice Marshal Gibbs as his Senior Air Staff Officer and Air Vice Marshal Harcourt Smith as Group Captain Ops Royal Air Force
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