After a general overview, the booklet describes the operational procedure and the command’s equipment, tells the story of its squadrons from their establishments and the history behind Operation Firedog and the Kenyan Emergency, Operation Grapple, Suez in November 1956 and the Indonesian Confrontation. A chapter dealing with intercontinental rockets is also included, as well as a chapter dealing with the two controversial bomber projects, the TSR-2 and the Skybolt. It is illustrated with contemporary photographs, whereas most of them are b/w and plenty of colour profiles of aircraft and weapons.

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