Air Headquarters Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean (Air H.Q. Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean or AHQ Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean) was a sub-command of
RAF Middle East Command which itself was a sub-command of the
Mediterranean Air Command
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during
World War II
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[Richards, D. and H. Saunders, The Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (Volume 2, HMSO, 1953).] Air H.Q. Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean was established on 4 March 1943, by renaming the RAF command known as
AHQ Egypt. Air Vice Marshal
Richard Saul
Air Vice-Marshal Richard Ernest Saul, (16 April 1891 – 30 November 1965) was a pilot during the First World War and a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War.
Earlier years
Saul was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1891. He ...
was the only commander of Air HQ Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean which was renamed Air HQ Eastern Mediterranean on 1 February 1944.
Order of battle
On 10 July 1943, when the
Allied forces invaded Sicily (
Operation Husky
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), Air H.Q. Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean consisted of four fighter groups.
Air HQ Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean
''Air Vice Marshal Richard Saul''
''Commanders
[ Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation] and Squadron Assignments''
Notes:
SAAF=South African Air Force; RAAF=Royal Australian Air Forces; Det.=Detachment; Met.=Meteorological.
Notes
References
* Craven, Wesley F. and James L. Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume 2, Chicago, Illinois: Chicago University Press, 1949 (Reprinted 1983, ).
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* Army Air Forces Historical Office Headquarters, Participation of the Ninth & Twelfth Air Forces in the Sicilian Campaign, Army Air Forces Historical Study No. 37, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1945.
Air of Authority - A history of RAF organisation
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Military units and formations established in 1943