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RAAF area commands
Royal Australian Air Force command system
- Area commands were the major operational and administrative formations of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) between 1940 and 1954.
- Established in response to the outbreak of World War II, they underpinned the Air Force's geographically based command-and-control system for the duration of the conflict and into the early years of the Cold War, until being superseded by a functional control system made up of Home, Training, and Maintenance Commands.