Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

Other Overseas Commands/Units - March 1946

[AHQ West Africa | Units in Australia | Units in the USA]

Air Headquarters, West Africa

HQ - Freetown

 

Location	Unit	Notes
Accra (Gold Coast)	Air HQ
Accra (Gold Coast)	No 55 Staging Post
Accra (Gold Coast)	West Africa Transport & Communication Sqn	Dakota/Anson
Accra (Gold Coast)	No 386 Maintenance Unit
Bathurst (Gambia)	RAF Detachment
Ikeja (Nigeria)	No 50 Staging Post
Jui (Sierra Leone)	RAF Detachment
Kano (Nigeria)	No 52 Staging Post
Maiduguri (Nigeria)	No 53 Staging Post
Port Etienne (Mauritania)	No 51 Staging Post
Takoradi (Gold Coast)	No 68 Staging Post
Takoradi (Gold Coast)	No 33 Embarkation Unit
Waterloo (Sierra Leone)	No 66 Staging Post
Yumdun (Gambia)	No 54 Staging Post

Units in Australia

HQ - Melbourne, Australia

 

Location	Unit	Notes
Amboyna	No 215 Staging Post
Archerfield (Brisbane)	No 194 Staging Post
Archerfield (Brisbane)	No 1315 Servicing Echelon
Archerfield (Brisbane)	No 1315 RAF Flight
Balikpapan	No 214 Staging Post
Brisbane	No 9 Special Liaison Unit	Administered by the RAAF
Camden	No 243 Sqn	Dakota/Anson
Garbutt (Townville)	No 193 Staging Post
Kingsford Smith Airport (Mascot, Sydney)	No 145 Staging Post
Labuan	No 195 Staging Post
Makassar	No 196 Staging Post
Melbourne	No 300 Group
Melbourne	Base Accounts Office
Melbourne	RAF Mission Australia and New Zealand
Perth	No 189 Staging Post
Port Moresby	No 199 Staging Post

Units in the United States of America

Administered by the RAF Delegation, Washington

 

Location	Unit	Notes
New York	No 56 Embarkation Unit
San Francisco	No 97 Embarkation Unit

Source - SD161 (66th Edition) - March 1946

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