Keith Williamson Military person

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Keith Alec Williamson GCB, AFC (born 25 February 1928) is a retired senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He served with the Royal Australian Air Force flying Meteors in a ground attack role during the Korean War. He was a squadron commander and then a station commander during the 1960s and a senior air commander in the 1980s. He was Chief of the Air Staff during the early 1980s at the time of the emergency airlift of food and supplies to Ethiopia ("Operation Bushel").

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Keith Williamson
Birth dateFebruary 28, 1928
Birth place
London , Leytonstone

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award
Order of the Bath
Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
military operations
Korean War
military command
RAF Staff College Bracknell
Chief of the Air Staff
No. 23 Squadron
Strike Command
RAF Gütersloh
Support Command
service start1944
service end1985

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