RAF Coastal Area

RAF Coastal Area
Royal Air Force Coastal Area
Active 1919 - 14 July 1936
Country United Kingdom United Kingdom
Branch Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg Royal Air Force
Role Anti-submarine warfare
Commerce raiding
Aerial reconnaissance
Air-sea rescue
Weather reconnaissance
Part of Royal Air Force

RAF Coastal Area was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). Founded in 1919, it was to act as the RAFs premier maritime arm. It was replaced by RAF Coastal Command on 14 July 1936.

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  • Ashworth, Chris. RAF Coastal Command: 1936-1969. Patrick Stephens Ltd. 1992. ISBN 1-85260-345-3
  • Blumenson, Martin & Greenfield, Ken. Command Decisions. United States Government Printing. 1984. ISBN 978-0160019128
  • Buckley, John. The RAF and Trade Defence, 1919-1945: Constant Endeavour. Ryburn Publishing. 1995. ISBN 1-85331-069-7
  • Buckley, John. Air Power in the Age of Total War. UCL Press. 1998. ISBN 1-85728-589-1.
  • Blair, Clay. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters 1939-1942 Cassel & Co. 1996. ISBN 0-304-35260-8
  • Blair, Clay. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted 1942-1945. Cassel & Co. 1996. ISBN 0-304-35261-6
  • Bowyer, Chaz. Coastal Command at War. Shepperton, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Ltd., 1979. ISBN 0-7110-0980-5.
  • Corum, James. The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940. Kansas University Press. 1997. ISBN 9780700608362
  • de la Ferté, Philiip Joubert. The Birds and the Fishes: The Story of Coastal Command. Hutchinson. 1960. (No ISBN)
  • Delve, Ken. The Source Book of the RAF. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1994. ISBN 1-85310-451-5.
  • Forczyk, Robert. Fw 200 Condor Vs Atlantic Convoys, 1941-1943. Osprey Publications. 2010. ISBN 978-1-84603-917-1
  • Goulter, Christina. A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force Coastal Command's Anti-Shipping Campaign, 1940-1945. Frank & Cass. London. 2005. ISBN 0-714-64147-2.
  • Hendrie, Andrew. The Cinderella Service: RAF Coastal Command 1939-1945. Pen & Sword Aviation. 2006. ISBN 978-1-84415-346-6.
  • Hyde, H. Montgomery. British Air Policy Between the Wars, 1918-1939 Heineman 1977. ISBN 434 -47983-7
  • March, Daniel J. British Warplanes of World War II. Rochester, Kent, UK: Grange Books, 1998. ISBN 1-84013-391-0.
  • Nesbit, Roy Conyers. Coastal Command in Action, 1939-1945. Budding Books. 2000 (2nd Edition). ISBN 1-84015-112-9
  • Rawlings, John D.R. Coastal, Support and Special Squadrons of the RAF and their Aircraft. London, Jane's Publishing Company Ltd., 1982. ISBN 0-7106-0187-5.
  • Saunders, Hilary Aidan St. George and Denis Richards. Royal Air Force, 1939-1945. Volume III: The Fight is Won. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1975. ISBN 0-11771-594-8.
  • Terraine, John. Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars, 1916-1945. Leo Cooper. London. 1989. ISBN 0-85052-7600

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Preceded by
Royal Naval Air Service of the Royal Navy
Coastal Area
1919–1936
Succeeded by
RAF Coastal Command

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