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Air Chief Marshal Sir William Alec Coryton KCB KBE MVO DFC RAF (16 February 1895 – 20 October 1981), known as Alec Coryton, was a senior Royal Air Force commander in the Second World War. ==Life== Originally commissioned as an officer into the British Army's Rifle Brigade (Special Reserve), Coryton transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a Lieutenant in 1918. When the RFC became the Royal Air Force, he resigned his Army commission and became a Royal Air Force officer. From 1925 to 1928, he was Officer Commanding 16 Squadron, based at Old Sarum, Wiltshire, operating the Bristol F.2 Fighter in the tactical reconnaissance role. On 25 April 1942 he became AOC, No. 5 Group RAF Bomber Command. It has been claimed that the then Air Commodore Coryton was sacked by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris for refusing to send a small force of Lancasters from his group on a sneak raid to Berlin in poor weather conditions. In February 1943 Coryton moved to the Air Staff at the Air Ministry and was appointed Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operations) in 1944. On 25 August 1944 he became Commander, RAF Third Tactical Air Force. * 1944 4 December Commander, RAF in Bengal & Burma. * 1944 14 December – May 1945 Assistant Air Commander, Eastern Air Command. * 1945 27 February Air Marshal Commanding HQ RAF Burma 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alec Coryton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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