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No. 216 (Ferry) Group was a command of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II established on May 21, 1942. The group was renamed No. 216 (Air Transport and Ferry) Group on September 9, 1942 and placed under the command of Air Commodore Whitney Straight the following day.〔http://www.rafweb.org/Grp07.htm Royal Air Force Web〕 No. 216 Group became a major sub-command of the Mediterranean Air Command that was created at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943.〔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, ISBN 0-912799-03-X).〕〔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.〕 On March 25, 1943, No. 216 Group also became a sub-command of the newly created Transport Command, an umbrella organization of all British transport units worldwide under the command of Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill. The group was sometimes aided by British Overseas Airways Corporation in the receiving, preparing, and dispatching of aircraft reinforcements into the North African and Mediterranean Theater of Operations. The components of No. 216 Group at the time of the Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) on July 10, 1943 are indicated below.〔Richards, D. and H. Saunders, The Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (Volume 2, HMSO, 1953).〕 No. 216 (Air Transport and Ferry) Group ''Air Commodore Whitney Straight'' Order of Battle, July 10, 1943 No. 216 (Air Transport and Ferry) Group was disbanded on October 26, 1946.〔http://www.rafweb.org/Grp07.htm Royal Air Force Web〕 ==Citations== 〔 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「No. 216 Group RAF」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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