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Air Liaison Officers are a crucial component of all modern militaries--most especially the U.S. To insist that only the RAF has ALOs is like insisting that Wimbledon is the only place in the world where they play tennis.
Georgejdorner (
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22:36, 10 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Stahura, Barbara (1998).
Earthquakers: 12th Bombardment Group (M). Turner Publishing Company.
ISBN978-1-56311-414-4. indicates that (apparently fairly junior officers) from the RAF were attached to the USAAF 12th Bombardment Group during the desert campaign of 1942, carrying out much the same duties as US ALOs did, identifying targets for tactical air. Not disputing the fact that the title was used for senior officers during WW II, the list in the article contradicts this, because it includes an officer killed in 1929, one who served as an ALO as a
Flight Lieutenant, and one who was a liaison from a corporation to the military.
Lineagegeek (
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Perhaps Barbara's description was a kind of simultaneous translation and they were not Air Liaison Officers to the RAF. Perhaps the responsibilities of the peacetime officer killed in 1929 were much greater than his rank would indicate, you mean Palstra? Can you be more specific? Does anyone else have similar concerns?
Eddaido (
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03:38, 18 November 2019 (UTC)reply