2010 Death Florence Green, the last known female First World War veteran who served with the Women's RAF in 1918, dies at 108 1990 Death Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies 1984 Death Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies 1977 Event West German RAF terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht 1977 Event RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer 1974 Event Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison 1972 Event West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof 1950 Death John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80 1948 Event 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires 1946 Birthday Keith Mans, born in England, politician, born Keith Douglas Rowland Mans, Member of Parliament for Wyre, educated at the RAF College Cranwell and the Open University 1945 Event New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF 1945 Event 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna) 1945 Event RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm 1945 Event RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 1944 Event RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway 1944 Event RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed 1944 Event RAF bombs West Kapelse 1944 Event RAF bombs Munich 1944 Event RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague 1944 Event RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute 1944 Event RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin 1943 Event RAF begins air bombing of Berlin 1943 Event RAF bombs Hamburg 1943 Event RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam 1943 Event RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) 1943 Event RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde 1943 Event RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde 1943 Event RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander" 1943 Event RAF bombs Mohne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr) 1943 Event RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea 1943 Event RAF bombs Essen Germany 1942 Event RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) 1942 Event RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf 1942 Event RAF bombs Hamburg 1942 Event British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) 1942 Event 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II 1942 Event 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck 1941 Event Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot 1941 Event Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt 1940 Event RAF bombs Munich 1940 Event RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands 1940 Event Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe 1940 Event RAF bombs Germany 1939 Event RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen 1929 Birthday Lord Craig of Radley, marshal, RAF 1928 Birthday Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal 1926 Birthday Raf Reymen, Flemish actor 1924 Birthday Raf de Linde, Raphael van Hecke, author, Vaarwel on Gertrude 1923 Birthday Michael Beetham, Marshal, RAF 1922 Event 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Captain Turner, RAF 1922 Event Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (New York City) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called 1921 Birthday B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service 1916 Birthday Raf Vallone, Tropea Italy, actor, El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon 1912 Event Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF) 1904 Birthday Dermot Boyle, marshal, RAF 1902 Birthday Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch 1892 Birthday Arthur Harris, Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF 1866 Birthday Raf[ael] Verhulst, Koen Ravestein, Flemish writer, Jesus of Nazarus
