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The RAF in India and the Northwest Frontier
The headquarters is at Karachi and Kohat. Aircraft seen in this area include these types:
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Westland Wapiti IIA and Wallace general-purpose aircraft; two of them overflew Everest in 1933.
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Hawker Hart fighter-bombers
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Vickers Victoria V and VI bomber-transports (70 Sqdn out from Iraq)
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Vickers Valentia bomber-transports (216 Sqdn out from India)
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Handley-Page Clive and Handley-Page Hinaidi transports, with the Bomber Transport Flight
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Hawker Audax light ground attack
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Bristol Bulldog IIA fighters
Standard RAF bombs are 20 and 112 pounds; fixed guns are usually Vickers, flexible guns are usually Lewis.
The British offer a reward of 9,000 rupees (about $5000 US in 1935) for the safe return of captured airmen or soldiers.
No. 1 (Indian) Group controls four stations (Karachi "Drigh Road", Peshawar, Lohat and Quetta). The Group provides close support to army units which include the Nowshera Brigade and other field regiments in the North-West Frontier. Group assets include a Flight of Westland Wallace II aircraft, used for high-altitude bombing and aerial photo-reconnaissance; and presumably a small number of one-of-a-kind and special duties aircraft. The repair depot and receiving station is at Karachi.
From 1922 to 1940 the following units were based at RAF Peshawar:
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4 (Army Co-Operation) Squadron: operating Hawker Audax
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20 (Army Co-Operation) Squadron: Westland Wapiti IIA are being replaced by Hawker Audax
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28 (Army Co-Operation) Squadron: operating Westland Wapiti IIA
RAF Kohat has the following squadrons:
RAF Risalpur has the following squadrons:
At RAF Quetta, the following squadrons are present as part of No. 3 (Indian) Group:
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