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RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It serves as the Headquarters of RAF Air Command, and was originally designed to house RAF Bomber Command in the late 1930s. The station is also the headquarters of the European Air Group. The motto of RAF High Wycombe in Latin is 'Non Sibi', which translates as 'not for ourselves'.

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  • RAF High Wycombe
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  • RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It serves as the Headquarters of RAF Air Command, and was originally designed to house RAF Bomber Command in the late 1930s. The station is also the headquarters of the European Air Group. The motto of RAF High Wycombe in Latin is 'Non Sibi', which translates as 'not for ourselves'.
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  • Walters Ash, Buckinghamshire, England
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  • Headquarters, RAF Air Command
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  • United Kingdom
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  • Station crest
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  • Station crest
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  • 1938(xsd:integer)
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  • 100(xsd:integer)
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  • Royal Air Force High Wycombe
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  • Latin: Non sibi
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  • RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It serves as the Headquarters of RAF Air Command, and was originally designed to house RAF Bomber Command in the late 1930s. The station is also the headquarters of the European Air Group. The location of the station was originally suggested by Wing Commander Alan Oakeshott when the Air Ministry was seeking a new, secure, site for Bomber Command away from London. Wing Commander Oakeshott was killed in combat in 1942 and is commemorated on the Naphill war memorial and in the name of the station's welfare centre, opened in 2011. The motto of RAF High Wycombe in Latin is 'Non Sibi', which translates as 'not for ourselves'.
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