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The 1920s
Top left: An unusual visiting aircraft was US Army Air Service DH4 AS6392? (last numeral obscured). Keen young cadets, identified by their white hat bands, inspect the cockpit.
Above: Cadets listen to a lecture in one of the bleak classrooms in the early days of the college.
Left: The hangars of the South airfield photo- graphed in 1920, by now clearly marked for navigation purposes. Aircraft types include the Avro 504K.
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THE 1920s
Above: Under pressure from Air Marshal Trenchard, the Air Ministry decided in 1919 to establish a Royal Air Force College on the lines of Sandhurst and Dartmouth, for the purpose of training officers for permanent service. The College was inaugurated on 5th February 1920, when the first entry of 52 cadets arrived, 17 of them coming from the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
