These are Facts – The Autobiography of Air Marshall Sir Richard Williams KBE CB DSO

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Title: These are Facts – The Autobiography of Air Marshall Sir Richard Williams KBE CB DSO

Author: Williams, Sir Richard KBE CB DSO

Condition: Very Good +

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1977

ISBN: 0642993998

Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket  – 428 pages

Comments: The comprehensive biography of  Air Marshall Sir Richard Williams KBE CB DSO – a pilot with the Australian Flying Corps and later one of the founders of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and who contributed to the organisation of the Empire Air Training Scheme during the Second World War.

Williams details the government’s decision to establish the Air Force as a separate service and of the opposition of Navy and Army to that decision. He is critical of the 1939 decision to appoint and English offier as Chief of the Air Staff and of the way in which RAAF personnel were employed during the war. He describes his contribution to the EATS and his work as RAAF representative on the Combined Chiefs of Staff organisation in Washington. As Director-General of Civil Aviation he tells of the development of post-war civil transport and the responsibilities of the Department of Civil Aviation.