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*[http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=40189&postcount=10 RAF on the NW Frontier Circa 1920's] part of a [http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6355 thread] from britishbadgeforum.com
*[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.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 *[http://www.maxwall.co.uk/army/info.htm Charles Frederick Langley] was in India on the North West Frontier 1920-1923 with the RAF 27 Squadron based at [[Risalpur]]. [http://www.maxwall.co.uk/army/gallery.htm Photographs] Family website
*These [http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/ggphotos/index.htm photographs] have subjects which are of a Military nature and were taken by Gordon Gibbons during his tour of duty in the Northwest Frontier of India, now Pakistan, with the RAF from 1937 to 1940. Bob Holland’s Raimpais website
*[http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/index.htm ''The Mumblings of Edward Sparkes''] [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/contents.htm Contents page] Flt Lt Edward D S N Sparkes was in the RAF and arrived in India in the latter part of 1943 in the chapter [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/bombay2.htm Ashore in Bombay]. He subsequently joined X Squadron Royal Indian Air Force and served in Burma until he was invalided back to England in 1945
*[http://www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/duncancontents.htm ''Mutiny In The RAF- the Air Force Strikes of 1946''] by David Duncan. Originally published 1998. socialisthistorysociety.co.uk. The first chapter is titled "Mutiny in Karachi"
*[http://www.152hyderabad.co.uk/index.htm 152(Hyderabad) F Squadron 1939-1967] Served in India from 19th December 1943 as part of Calcutta’s defence and later moved to the front. Disbanded at R.A.F. [[Risalpur ]] in 1947*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww2images/tags/india/ ww2images photostream with Tags –India] flickr.com Mainly images of aircraft.
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