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==North West Frontier==
India’s North-West Frontier (now modern-day Pakistan) was divided into three areas for the RAF. The northern area comprised the region to the north of the Khyber Pass up to the foothills of the Himalayas – referred to as the ‘Roof of the World.’ The second or central area lay south west of the Khyber Pass roughly between the rivers Kabul and Kurram. This was universally mountainous, criss-crossed by deep valleys and dried up water courses. The third region was the southern area which lay to the south west of Kohat, from the Kurram River down towards
Fort Sandeman and Baluchistan. This was dominated by Waziristan, the storm centre of the frontier and stronghold of tribal resistance.<ref>[http://www.airpowerstudies.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/apr14no3.pdf "“Good God, Sir, Are You Hurt?” The Realities and Perils of Operating over India’s Troublesome North-West Frontier" ] by Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Roe ''Air Power Review Volume 14 Number 3 Autumn/Winter 2011'' Centre for Air Power Studies, Royal Air Force, page 78 (computer page 89) [http://www.airpowerstudies.co.uk/0221_11AJ%20Air%20Power%20Review_Vol%2014%20No3_Aut-Winter%20Edtn_COMPLE.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:H5O1ZoXuSAoJ:www.airpowerstudies.co.uk/0221_11AJ%2520Air%2520Power%2520Review_Vol%252014%2520No3_Aut-Winter%2520Edtn_COMPLE.pdf+%22John+Masters%22+North+West+Frontier&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg2GF0zqkM1rw6lEYozZ2XDeltW8xvnVqB33qwizSTux_fpA5f50S51Hmn3NzSQjytRsj1yhaupuz28Z4WP_uTWDdGWM7ujqaj_oH8vkIODDpTB1G5Sap6OaDPbw3KNG98LSAAk&sig=AHIEtbR4PeT9ejNWcOxDSKYg2r2J8D6oTA html version]</ref>
Also see [[North West Frontier Campaigns]]
*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205090524 Photograph: Pack mule at Miranshah Fort, laden with a wireless transmitter set from 20 Squadron RAF (interwar period)] Imperial War Museums
*[http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/The-Bombing-of-Waziristan.html The Bombing of Waziristan (c 1924-1939)] by Graham Chandler ''Air & Space magazine'', July 2011
*[http://www.airpowerstudies.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/apr14no3.pdf "“Good God, Sir, Are You Hurt?” The Realities and Perils of Operating over India’s Troublesome North-West Frontier" ] by Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Roe ''Air Power Review Volume 14 Number 3 Autumn/Winter 2011'' Centre for Air Power Studies, Royal Air Force, pages 61-82 (computer file pages 72-93) *[httphttps://wwwweb.airpowerstudiesarchive.co.ukorg/web/20140508060510/0221_11AJ%20Air%20Power%20Review_Vol%2014%20No3_Aut-Winter%20Edtn_COMPLE.pdf pdf], [httpshttp://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:H5O1ZoXuSAoJ:www.airpowerstudiesbcmh.coorg.uk/0221_11AJ%2520Air%2520Power%2520Review_Vol%252014%2520No3_Aut-Winter%2520Edtn_COMPLEarchive/conferences/2012AirGroundConingham.pdf+%22John+Masters%22+North+West+Frontier&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg2GF0zqkM1rw6lEYozZ2XDeltW8xvnVqB33qwizSTux_fpA5f50S51Hmn3NzSQjytRsj1yhaupuz28Z4WP_uTWDdGWM7ujqaj_oH8vkIODDpTB1G5Sap6OaDPbw3KNG98LSAAk&sig=AHIEtbR4PeT9ejNWcOxDSKYg2r2J8D6oTA html version]*''"Air/Ground Cooperation between the RAF and the Indian Army in Waziristan 1936-1937'' "] by Simon Coningham BCMH [, British Commission for Military History] , Summer Conference 2012–Indian Armies [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:bfxe6WYBXYIJ:www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/conferences/2012AirGroundConingham.pdf+Waziristan+armoured+car&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjjetZr_mK9jCcdfMNLAxN96_FgEqVKWGNnM3X19nNx8CKa-MV4TG6-mEWBD-HmjzGh6er5AjQo6hbzH89FnUHo8hG-uGsspkbo2A7rarROiYFSaTXrpYIIjvRXEWMs4oPRdoJl&sig=AHIEtbTWjrKVNilUGruc0DGoTpwBOPatYw html version], [http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/conferences/2012AirGroundConinghamnow archived.pdf pdf]
*[http://www.xisquadronassociation.co.uk/history/history.html No XI Squadron, RAF] saw service on India’s Northwest frontier, from 1929, and in Burma from September 1943.
*[http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/4128 Film: India, North-West Frontier, 1937]. colonialfilm.org.uk. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and dropping leaflets in Waziristan
