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Operation Banquet
Operation Banquet was a British plan to use every available aircraft to repel a threatened German invasion in 1940 or 1941. During the Second World War, in May 1940, the Air Ministry realised that beyond the normal reserves of the Royal Air Force (RAF), it may be necessary to throw everything into a last-ditch battle for British liberty. To this end, the Air Ministry planned to use just about anything that could fly. On 17 May 1940, an Air Ministry meeting outlined a series of ambitious plans to make use of various aircraft in the event of an invasion.〔The National Archives: (AIR 14/1126 – Operation "Banquet": scheme to employ all available training aircraft in defence of UK against invasion )〕
With the Fall of France in July 1940, the Germans threatened to invade Britain. The British Government made urgent efforts to prepare to meet the threatened invasion and the RAF engaged the German Luftwaffe in a struggle for air superiority over Britain, in what became known as the Battle of Britain.
== Plan ==
On 13 July 1940, the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command was ordered to plan to make the maximum practical number of aircraft available for operations.〔 The overall plan was known as Operation Banquet and was divided into a number of separate operations that could be enacted independently. ''Banquet 6 Group'' would see the absorption of No 6 Group units (the Group Pool units, not the later Royal Canadian Air Force) into the operational striking force of RAF Bomber Command. ''Banquet 22 Group'' would move certain 22 group (Army Cooperation) aircraft into the operational striking force of Bomber Command. Striking more of a note of desperation were ''Banquet Alert'' which called for the employment of Fleet Air Arm training aircraft under Coastal Command and ''Banquet Training'' which called for the absorption of aircraft from Training Command into the operational striking force of Bomber Command.〔
Aircraft allocated under Banquet would, in many cases, lack bombsights, armour for the protection of the crew, defensive guns and self-sealing fuel tanks. While these were to be fitted where possible, RAF instructions were very clear that no aircraft was to be considered unfit for want of such niceties. Anything that could fly and drop bombs would suffice.〔 Ground service crews would go with their aircraft and in some cases this would have involved civilian volunteers. The air crew for ''Banquet Alert'' and ''Training'' would be the experienced instructors as well as those students that had reached "a reasonably satisfactory standard of training".〔
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