Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Announced the formation of a new Air Corps unit, concentrating all defensive aircraft (such as pursuit ships to drive off enemy bombers), anti-aircraft batteries, ground warning systems, in a single, centralized command. Hitherto these defensive functions have been scattered among Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, the Air Corps's General Headquarters Air Force. Now GHQ Air Force can be solely what it was intended to be-a powerful, offensive striking arm for attack on enemy centres...