Denis Spotswood (original) (raw)

dbo:abstract

Sir Denis Frank Spotswood GCB CBE DSO DFC FRAeS (* 26. September 1916; † 11. November 2001) war ein britischer Marshal of the Royal Air Force, der zwischen 1971 und 1974 Chef des Luftwaffenstabes (Chief of the Air Staff) war. (de)
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Denis Frank Spotswood, GCB, CBE, DSO, DFC (26 September 1916 – 11 November 2001) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. He fought in the Second World War as a flying boat pilot and then as a coastal reconnaissance squadron commander during Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. He served as a station commander in the late 1940s and early 1950s before becoming a senior air commander in the late 1950s. As the Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1970s he had a major role in implementing the defence savings demanded by the Heath Government in the face of economic difficulties at the time. (en)

dbo:allegiance

United Kingdom

dbo:award

dbo:battle

dbr:Second_World_War

dbo:militaryBranch

dbr:Royal_Air_Force

dbo:militaryCommand

Chief of the Air Staff(1971–74)
No. 3 (Bomber) Group(1964–65)
No. 500 Squadron(1942–43)
RAF College Cranwell(1958–61)
RAF Coltishall(1948)
RAF Germany(1965–68)
RAF Horsham St Faith(1947–48)
RAF Linton-on-Ouse(1954–56)
RAF Strike Command(1968–71)

dbo:serviceStartYear

1936-01-01 (xsd:gYear)

dbo:thumbnail

wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Dspotswood.jpg?width=300

dbo:wikiPageID

3686322 (xsd:integer)

dbo:wikiPageLength

13599 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)

dbo:wikiPageRevisionID

1054319351 (xsd:integer)

dbo:wikiPageWikiLink

dbp:after

dbr:Andrew_Humphrey

dbp:allegiance

United Kingdom (en)

dbp:awards

dbr:Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_Kingdom)
dbr:Distinguished_Service_Order
dbr:Legion_of_Merit
dbr:Mentioned_in_Despatches
dbr:Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (en)

dbp:battles

dbr:Second_World_War

dbp:birthDate

1916-09-26 (xsd:date)

dbp:birthPlace

dbp:branch

dbr:Royal_Air_Force

dbp:caption

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Denis Spotswood (en)

dbp:commands

dbp:deathDate

2001-11-11 (xsd:date)

dbp:deathPlace

dbp:name

Sir Denis Frank Spotswood (en)

dbp:rank

dbr:Marshal_of_the_Royal_Air_Force

dbp:rows

2 (xsd:integer)

dbp:serviceyears

1936 (xsd:integer)

dbp:title

dbr:Chief_of_the_Air_Staff_(United_Kingdom)
(Also Commander of the Second Tactical Air Force) (en)
Commander-in-Chief RAF Germany (en)
Commander-in-Chief Strike Command (en)

dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate

dbp:wordnet_type

http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-person-noun-1

dbp:years

1965 (xsd:integer)
1968 (xsd:integer)
1971 (xsd:integer)

dct:subject

gold:hypernym

dbr:Commander

schema:sameAs

http://viaf.org/viaf/299944196

rdf:type

rdfs:comment

Sir Denis Frank Spotswood GCB CBE DSO DFC FRAeS (* 26. September 1916; † 11. November 2001) war ein britischer Marshal of the Royal Air Force, der zwischen 1971 und 1974 Chef des Luftwaffenstabes (Chief of the Air Staff) war. (de)
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Denis Frank Spotswood, GCB, CBE, DSO, DFC (26 September 1916 – 11 November 2001) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. He fought in the Second World War as a flying boat pilot and then as a coastal reconnaissance squadron commander during Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. He served as a station commander in the late 1940s and early 1950s before becoming a senior air commander in the late 1950s. As the Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1970s he had a major role in implementing the defence savings demanded by the Heath Government in the face of economic difficulties at the time. (en)

rdfs:label