GB 0099 KCLMA Downey - DOWNEY, AVM John Chegwyn Thomas (b 1920)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Downey 1983, 2002 Collection level 1 file or 0.01m3 Downey , John Cheywyn Thomas , b 1920 , Air Vice Marshal

Born 1920; educated Whitgift School; entered Royal Air Force 1939; served in Coastal Command, World War Two, 1939-1945; anti U-boat operations, 1945; Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, 1956-1958; commanded Bomber Command Development Unit, 1959-1960; head of North East Defence Secretariat, Cyprus, 1960-1962; Command, RAF Farnborough, 1962-1964; a Director of Operational Requirements (RAF), Ministry of Defence, 1965-1967; Imperial Defence College, 1968; Commandant, RAF College of Air Warfare, Manby, 1969; Commander, Southern Maritime Air Region, 1969-1971; Air Vice Marshal, 1970; Senior RAF Member, Royal College of Defence Studies, 1972-1974; Deputy Controller of Aircraft (C), Ministry of Defence, 1974-1975; retired 1975.

Publications: Management in the Armed Forces: an anatomy of the military profession (London: McGraw-Hill, 1977).

Presented to the Centre by AVM Downey, August 2005

Three articles by Air Vice Marshal John Downey: The ageing of deterrence', reprinted from The year book of world affairs, 1983;The West against terrorism', at www.opendemocracy.net, April 2002; `The Third World versus the West', at www.opendemocracy.net, August 2002.

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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.
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Summary guide entry on-line.

Decorations: CB, DFC, AFC
Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997. July 2007 Crime Downey , John Cheywyn Thomas , b 1920 , Air Vice Marshal International relations Terrorism

Presented to the Centre by AVM Downey, August 2005

Three articles by Air Vice Marshal John Downey: The ageing of deterrence', reprinted from The year book of world affairs, 1983;The West against terrorism', at www.opendemocracy.net, April 2002; `The Third World versus the West', at www.opendemocracy.net, August 2002.

1 file

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.

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English

Summary guide entry on-line.

Decorations: CB, DFC, AFC

Decorations: CB, DFC, AFC

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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