Welcome to The RAF Chronicle Podcast. In this episode, we examine Pink’s War, the 1925 campaign in South Waziristan that is often treated as the Royal Air Force’s first independent military action. Pink’s War was small in scale, but large in institutional importance. It tested the inter-war idea of imperial air control and offered the...
Welcome to The RAF Chronicle Podcast. In this episode, we examine why Britain created the Royal Air Force as a separate service in 1918. This episode traces the path from the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service to the birth of the RAF, explaining how wartime pressure, home-defence failures, Jan Smuts’s report,...
Welcome to The RAF Chronicle Podcast. In this opening episode, we introduce the series and set out what listeners can expect in the weeks ahead. The history of the Royal Air Force is far larger than its most famous aircraft and best-known battles. This podcast is designed to explore that wider story: the aircraft, the...