Rhubarb Refs

[JohnRatzenberger]

Here post information and references to Rhubarb operations, units, aircraft, etc.
A good place to ask historical questions.

[Chris]

Link to RAF fighter command timeline:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/rafhistor ... ne1940.cfm;

Link to types of aircraft and RAF squadrons using them, 1942;
http://ww2total.com/WW2/History/Orders- ... s-1942.htm;

A history of RAF Fighter Command
http://members.tripod.com/Rush_9/page3.htm;

A discription of a Rhubarb using Bell P-39 Aircobras
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/p39_5.html;

list of every RAF squadron in WWII, with unit discriptions, station names and locations and aircraft types used:

http://www.historyofwar.org/subject_RAF_units.html;

List for squadrons over 100 are incomplete

I'll add more stuff as I come accross it!

[AndrewR]

RAF Squadron codes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RAF_Squadron_Codes;

And squadron histories

http://www.rafweb.org/Menu.htm#Sqn%20Markings;


The rafweb site (above) has lots of good stuff in it, but it takes a bit of digging out.
Try the quick menu


http://www.rafweb.org/Menu%20Quick.htm;

[JohnRatzenberger]

A historical point of order, not to change the GB rules ....

I find it interesting that in the officially commissioned 3-volume history of the RAF in WW2 (as opposed to the full-length official Military History of the War) the word 'Rhubarb' appears only once on page 302 of Vol 3 and is used to describe joint operations in support of the army in Arakan 1943-ish. These were low-level attacks, from the sea, and they escaped over the mountains. Many casualties caused when the mist off the mountains merged with the sea and the pilots lost their horizon reference ...

For those unfamiliar with the old SEA, Arakan was a state in Burma, on the coast. India was to the north. Much of the 'BI' part of 'CBI' took place there and nearby -- think KOhima, Imphal, Wingate, and all that. BTW, US squadrons were involved in these 'Rhubarbs' also ...