Jack Baldwin (RAF officer)

John Eustice Arthur Baldwin
13 April 1892 – 28 July 1975
Wg Cdr Baldwin as Commandant of the Central Flying School
Nickname	Jack
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Air Force
Years of service	c. 1910 – 15 August 1939 29 August 1939 - 15 December 1944
Rank	Air Marshal
Commands held	RAF Third Tactical Air Force No. 3 Group RAF
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companion of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches (4)

Air Marshal Sir John Eustice Arthur Baldwin KBE, CB, DSO, DL, RAF (13 April 1892 – 28 July 1975), was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

World War II

• 1939 29 August Air Office Commanding No. 3 Group RAF Bomber Command
• 1942 9 January – 1942 21 February Acting Commander In Chief, Bomber Command. During his brief tenure that the Channel Dash occurred, when the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau escaped from the French port of Brest and fled up the English Channel to the sanctuary of Kiel harbour in northern Germany.
• 1942 9 October Deputy Air Office Commander in Chief, India.
• 1943 16 November Air Officer Commanding RAF Third Tactical Air Force

He reverted to the Retired List on 15 December 1944.

External links

• http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/command.html RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary
• http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Baldwin.htm

Military offices
Preceded by C S Burnett	Commandant of the Central Flying School 1928–1932	Succeeded by P C Maltby
Preceded by H M Cave-Browne-Cave	RAF College Commandant 1936 – 1938	Succeeded by unknown
Preceded by Sir Richard Peirse	Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command (Acting) 1942	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Harris
New title Post established	Air Officer Commanding Tactical Air Force (Burma) Post retitled AOC Third Tactical Air Force on 28 December 1943 1943–1944	Succeeded by W A Coryton

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