Royal Air Force Germany Since 1945 Author:Bill Taylor This detailed survey takes the lid off RAF operations within Germany and provides a detailed valediction of its exploits from the establishment of the British Air Forces of Occupation in July 1945 to the tense days of the Berlin Airlift and the establishment of NATO and its tripwire strategy which placed Germany firmly in the front line via its ... more »Forward Defense policy. These were the heady days of Canberras, Hunters and Javelins meeting the potential foe. As crisis piled upon crisis -- Gary Powers and the U-2, the Berlin Wall, Cuban Missiles, Czechoslovakia -- the RAF looked to a new generation of aircraft with which to meet the threat: Buccaneers, Harriers, Jaguars and Phantoms. The 1970s and 1980s saw the situation changing as Tornados joined the RAF's armory. With the collapse of the USSR and the demolition of the Berlin Wall, a British presence in Germany was no longer deemed necessary and this book serves as a timely and wide ranging study of a previously little documented era of RAF history.« less