RAF Home Command

Home Command
Active1 February 1939–27 May 1940
1 May 1946–1 April 1959
Country United Kingdom
Branch Royal Air Force
Garrison/HQWantage Hall, University of Reading
Motto(s)Support[1]

RAF Home Command was the Royal Air Force command that was responsible for the maintenance and training of reserve organisations[2] from formation on 1 February 1939 as RAF Reserve Command with interruptions until it ceased to exist on 1 April 1959.

  1. ^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 226. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
  2. ^ John D. Rawlings, 'The History of the Royal Air Force,' Temple Press Aerospace, Feltham, Middlesex, 1984, p.180