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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 the Second World War 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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  • Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike, GCB, CBE, DFC, DL (* 29. Juni 1906; † 1. Juni 1983 auf dem Luftwaffenstützpunkt ) war ein britischer Marshal of the Royal Air Force, der unter anderem zwischen 1953 und 1956 stellvertretender Chef des Luftwaffenstabes (Deputy Chief of the Air Staff), von 1956 bis 1959 Kommandeur des Luftjagdkommandos (RAF Fighter Command), zwischen 1960 und 1963 Chef des Luftwaffenstabes (Chief of the Air Staff) sowie zuletzt von 1964 bis 1967 stellvertretender Oberkommandierender der Alliierten NATO-Streitkräfte in Europa (Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe) war. (de)
  • 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 the Second World War 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. (en)
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  • United Kingdom
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  • Chief of the Air Staff(1960–63)
  • No. 1 Mobile Operations Room Unit (1943–44)
  • No. 11 Group(1950–51)
  • No. 219 Squadron(1941)
  • Officers' Advanced Training School (1945–46)
  • RAF Fighter Command(1956–59)
  • RAF North Weald(1942)
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  • Sir Thomas Pike (en)
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  • Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike (en)
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  • St. Andrew's churchyard, North Weald Bassett (en)
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  • Lieutenant General Sir Hew Pike (en)
  • Lieutenant General Sir William Pike (en)
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  • Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike, GCB, CBE, DFC, DL (* 29. Juni 1906; † 1. Juni 1983 auf dem Luftwaffenstützpunkt ) war ein britischer Marshal of the Royal Air Force, der unter anderem zwischen 1953 und 1956 stellvertretender Chef des Luftwaffenstabes (Deputy Chief of the Air Staff), von 1956 bis 1959 Kommandeur des Luftjagdkommandos (RAF Fighter Command), zwischen 1960 und 1963 Chef des Luftwaffenstabes (Chief of the Air Staff) sowie zuletzt von 1964 bis 1967 stellvertretender Oberkommandierender der Alliierten NATO-Streitkräfte in Europa (Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe) war. (de)
  • 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 the Second World War 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. (en)
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