RAF Balloon Command
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Balloon Command was the Royal Air Force command which was responsible for controlling all the United Kingdom-based barrage balloon units during World War II.
Balloon Command was formed on 1 November 1938 at Stanmore in Middlesex.
[edit] Commanders
- 1 November 1938 Air Vice-Marshal O T Boyd
- 1 December 1940 Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gossage
- 1 February 1944 Air Vice-Marshal W C C Gell
- 13 February 1945 Air Commodore P L Lincoln
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