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Slanguage: revisited.(Royal Air Force )

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-JUN-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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In five successive issues of the Air Power History (Winter 2000 through Winter 2001) an article on Royal Air Force Slanguage used during World War II was published. At that time, the author thought that it included all the terms that he had recorded or remembered over the years since that he...

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...period. Since then, however, found some additional notes containing more RAF slang expressions that had not been included in the original published listing. In addition, he had read some new books published in England to honor the sixtieth anniversary of Royal Air Force activities during World War II, which he had not seen or heard about before. Furthermore, he had received a letter from a friend, Maj. Gen. Edwin B. Giller, USAF (Ret.), who had flown with the 55th Fighter Group, Eighth Air Force, in England during World War II. Included with the letter were some slang terms used by RAF/USAAF fighter pilots to restrict the German fighter pilots from knowing what they were actually doing in the air. Putting everything together, an additional list of over 100 terms of RAF "Slanguage" and their U.S. Army Air Forces equivalent definitions was developed.

Brig. Gen. Brian S. Gunderson, USAF (Ret.) *

* General Gunderson submitted this manuscript shortly before his death.

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