Thomas Pike Military person
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike GCB CBE DFC & Bar DL (29 June 1906 – 1 June 1983) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He served in World War II as a night fighter squadron commander and then as a station commander. He was Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1960s and, in that role, deployed British air power as part of the British response to the Brunei Revolt. Also, in the face of escalating costs, he implemented the cancellation of the British Blue Streak ballistic missile system but then found the RAF was without any such capability when the Americans cancelled their own Skybolt ballistic missile system. He went on to be Deputy Supreme Commander Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in the mid-1960s.
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| award | |
|---|---|
| military operations | |
| military command | No. 11 Group Chief of the Air Staff RAF Fighter Command RAF North Weald No. 219 Squadron No. 1 Mobile Operations Room Unit Officers' Advanced Training School |
| service start | 1924 |
| service end | 1967 |