This listing gives details of books which are either about or contain reference to RAF formations which are no Squadrons.

Groups
No.2 Group
Martin Bowman 'The Reich Intruders' (Pen & Sword 2005)
M J F Bowyer '2 Group RAF: 1936-45' (Faber 1974)
M Henry 'Air gunner'
L Hunt 'Short history of no. 2 Group RAF: from Hind to Hunter' (Hunt c1968)
No.3 Group
 Ward/ Smith '3 Group Bomber Command: an operational record' (Pen & Sword 2008)
No.4 Group
Blanchett 'From Hull, Hell and Halifax' (reprinted 2006)
G L Donnelly 'The Whitley Boys' (Air Research 1999)
Ken Marshall 'The pendulum and the scythe' (Air Research)
No.5 Group
 Lawrence '5 Bomber Group RAF' (Chivers 1951)
Ward '5 Group Bomber Command: an operational record' (Pen & Sword 2007)
No.6 Group
 Dunmore & Carter 'Reap the whirlwind: the untold story of 6 Group, Canadas bomber force of World War 2' (Crecy 1992)
Ward '6 Group Bomber Command: an operational record' (Pen & Sword 2010)
No.8 Group
 Musgrove 'Pathfinder Force: a history of 8 Group' (Macdonald 1976)
No.9 Group
 Bamford/ Collier 'Eyes of the night: the air defence of north-western England 1940-43' (2006)
No.11 Group
 Cooksley '1940: the story of 11 Group, Fighter Command' (Hale, 1983)
No.12 Group
 Bill Simpson 'Spitfire dive-bombers versus the V2' (Pen & Sword 2007)
No.100 Group
 M Bowman & T Cushing 'Confounding the Reich' (2005)
M Bowman '100 Group (Bomber Support)' (Pen & Sword 2006)
L Brettingham 'Even when the sparrows are walking: 100 Bomber Support Group 1943-45' (Gopher 2001)
G Heilig 'The cry of the Nightjar' (1997)
Streetly 'Counfound and Destroy' (Jane's 1985)
No.205 Group
 M Lihou 'Out of the Italian night: Wellington bomber operations 1944-45' (Also published as 'Its dicey flying Wimpeys' Pentland Press 2000, Airlife 2006)
McDonald 'Through darkness to light: 205 Group raids from Italy into Roumania' (Images 1994)
No.212 Group
 Cross & Orange 'Straight and level: ACM Sir Kenneth Cross' (Grub St 1993)
No.242 Group
 Cross & Orange 'Straight and level: ACM Sir Kenneth Cross' (Grub St 1993)
   
Wings  
No.5 Wing
 P Joubert 'The fated sky: autobigraphy of ACM Sir Philip Joubert' (Hutchinson 1952)
No.80 Wing
 Brettingham 'Beam Benders' (Midland Counties 1997)
No.244 Wing
 King 'A willingness to die: memories from Fighter Command' (2007)
No.252 Wing
 Cross & Orange 'Straight and level: ACM Sir Kenneth Cross' (Grub St 1993)
No.258 Wing
 Cross & Orange 'Straight and level: ACM Sir Kenneth Cross' (Grub St 1993)
   
Training  
No.1 Air Armament School
 J R Bushby 'Gunner's moon' (Ian Allen 1972)
No.7 Air School
Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
No.22 Air School
Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
No.1 Air Observer School
 John Iverach 'Chronicles of a nervous navigator' (Iverach ISBN 1-55056-178-2)
No.1 Bombing & Gunnery School
John Iverach 'Chronicles of a nervous navigator' (Iverach ISBN 1-55056-178-2)
No.3 Bombing & Gunnery School
Clayton Moore 'Lancaster crew'
Central Flying School
 B Pegg 'Sent flying' (1927-30) Macdonald 1959)
John Shipman 'One of The Few' (instructor) (Pen & Sword 2008)
Taylor 'CFS: Birthplace of air power' (Putnam 1956)
Central Gunnery School
 A Deere 'Nine Lives' (Autobiographical; late WW2) (Wingham Press 1991)
No.9 Elementary Flying Training School
 T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Cunderdin, Western Australia) (Scotland 2007)
No.13 Elementary Flying Training School
 T Spooner 'Clean Sweep: Life of Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom' (Crecy 1994)
No.8 Flying Training School
 John Shipman 'One of The Few' (instructor at Montrose) (Pen & Sword 2008)
No.14 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit
 Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
No.15 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit
 T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)
No.11 Radio School
 P Bodle & B Boulter 'Mosquito to Berlin' (instructor 1943) (Pen & Sword 2007)
No.4 Service Flying Training School
 T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)
No.14 Service Flying Training School
 T Spooner 'Clean Sweep: Life of Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom' (Crecy 1994)
No.34 Service Flying Training School
 D Carter 'Prairie Wings: 34 Service Flying Training School Medicine Hat 1941-44' (Carter)
   
Fighter Command  
No.1 Fighter and Gunnery School
 Alex Revell 'Fighter aces! The Constable Maxwell brothers' (WW1) (Pen & Sword 2010)
Fighter Command Night Experimental Unit
 J Howard-Williams 'Night Intruder' (David & Charles/ Book Club, 1976)
No.54 Operational Training Unit
K B McGlashan 'Down to earth: a fighter pilot's experiences of surviving Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, Dieppe and D-Day' (Instructor 1946-48)
Jack Thompson 'RAF Charterhall' (Crecy)
No.57 Operational Training Unit
 John Freeborn 'Tiger Club' (1941) (Pen & Sword 2009)
No.60 Operational Training Unit
 K B McGlashan 'Down to earth: a fighter pilot's experiences of surviving Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, Dieppe and D-Day' (Instructor 11/41-7/1942)
No.61 Operational Training Unit
 P Brown 'Honour restored'
   
Bomber Command  
No.1651 Heavy Conversion Unit
 Jack Dickinson 'The time of my life: life with 218 & 623 Sqns'
Richard Stowers 'Bomber Baron: W/C James Fraser Baron' (Instructor 1942)
No.1652 Heavy Conversion Unit
 T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)
Tom Wingham 'Halifax down! On the run from the Gestapo, 1944' (Grub St, 2009)
No.1658 Heavy Conversion Unit
 Lunn & Arbon 'Aircraft down III: RAF Riccall & 1658 HCU' (Hardwick 1989)
No.1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
 Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
No.1661 Heavy Conversion Unit
 Clayton Moore 'Lancaster crew'
No.1662 Heavy Conversion Unit
J.Currie 'Mosquito Victory' (Goodall 1983)
No.1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
 Tom Wingham 'Halifax down! On the run from the Gestapo, 1944' (Grub St, 2009)
No.1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
 P Drummond 'The Driving Force: memoirs of wartime WAAF drivers'
Independent Force
 Rennles 'Independent Force: war diary of the daylight squadrons... June-November 1918' (on the Western Front)
No.1409 Meteorological flight
J.Currie 'Mosquito Victory' (Goodall 1983)
Joe Patient 'Pilot - a tale of high adventure' (Leo Cooper ISBN 0 85052 544 6)
No.1655 Mosquito Conversion Unit
Joe Patient 'Pilot - a tale of high adventure' (Leo Cooper ISBN 0 85052 544 6)
T Spooner 'Clean Sweep: Life of Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom' (1655 MTU Finmere and Warboys) (Crecy 1994)
No.10 Operational Training Unit
 T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)
No.11 Operational Training Unit
 Richard Stowers 'Bomber Baron: W/C James Fraser Baron' (Instructor 1943)
No.12 Operational Training Unit
Jack Dickinson 'The time of my life: life with 218 & 623 Sqns'
Murray Pedan 'A thousand shall fall'
Bill Randle 'Blue skies & dark nights'
D Reader 'A village in wartime: the story of RAF Chipping Warden' (1995)
Albert & Ian Smith 'Mosquito Pathfinder' (Crecy Publishing 2004)
No.13 Operational Training Unit
 T Perry Evans 'Squadron Leader Tommy Broom DFC' (instructor 1941) (Pen & Sword 2007)
T Spooner 'Clean Sweep: Life of Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom' (Crecy 1994)
No.14 Operational Training Unit
 T G Mahaddie 'Hamish' (Autobiographical; 1940-42) (Ian Allen 1989)
No.16 Operational Training Unit
Clayton Moore 'Lancaster crew'
No.19 Operational Training Unit
 Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
No.20 Operational Training Unit
Bill Randle 'Blue skies & dark nights'
Richard Stowers 'Bomber Baron: W/C James Fraser Baron' (20 OTU 1941)
No.21 Operational Training Unit
Christopher Jary 'Portrait of a bomber pilot' (Sidney Jary 1990)
Jack Rodgers 'Navigators Log' (Merlin Books 1985)
No.23 Operational Training Unit
Bill Randle 'Blue skies & dark nights'
No.24 Operational Training Unit
David Hodgson 'Letters from a bomber pilot' (Thames Methuen 1985)
Brian Kedward 'Angry Skies across the vale' (B Kedward)
No.25 Operational Training Unit
J R Bushby 'Gunner's moon' (Ian Allen 1972)
No.26 Operational Training Unit
Michael Warth 'Wings over Wing' (The Book Castle, Dunstable ISBN 1 903747 05 8)
No.27 Operational Training Unit
D Charlwood 'No moon tonight' (Burgewood Books 2006)
D Charlwood 'Journeys into night' (Burgewood Books 2006)
Malcolm Giddings 'Bomber base: a history of RAF Lichfield & Church Broughton' (Colerne Debden 1986)
Edwin Wheeler 'Just to get a bed' (Square One 1990)
   
Coastal Command  
No.6 Operational Training Unit
 J Lever 'No 6 OTU, base torpedo unit and RAAF Beaufort torpedo operations' (1999)
No.7 Operational Training Unit
 H Thomas & A Henshaw 'Spirit of the blue: Peter Ayerst, a fighter pilots story' (The History Press)
   
Others  
No.1 Ferry Unit
 K B McGlashan 'Down to earth: a fighter pilot's experiences of surviving Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, Dieppe and D-Day' (1 FU 1-6/1946)
No.31 Operational Training Unit
John Iverach 'Chronicles of a nervous navigator' (Iverach ISBN 1-55056-178-2)
No.41 Operational Training Unit
 Ince 'Brotherhood of the skies' (1944) (2010)
No.71 Operational Training Unit
 Peter Holloway 'Desert Wings - a Hurricane pilot in the western desert' (Melverly Publishing 2001)
No.81 Operational Training Unit
 P Drummond 'The Driving Force: memoirs of wartime WAAF drivers'
No.85 Operational Training Unit
 V A Winter 'Resurgam:The Story of Flight Lieutenant G L Nowell' (c1980)
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these books
 Bewsher 'Green Balls: the adventures of a night bomber' (Greenhill 1986 - reprint of 1919 edition)
Bodle/ Boulter 'Mosquito to Berlin: story of Birtie Boulter DFC' (2007)
Boiten 'Night airwar' (Crowood 1999)
Bowman 'Flying into the flames of hell' (first hand accounts from Bomber Command) (2007)
Boyle 'No passing glory: biography of Group Captain Cheshire' (Collins 1955)
Martin Bowman 'RAF bomber stories' (PSL 1998)
Denys Braithwaite 'Target for tonight: long range reconnaissance & pathfinder missions in WW2'
Frank Carey 'Frank 'Chota' Carey' (Grub St 2006)
Cull/ Symons 'One-armed Mac' (biography of S/L James MacLachlan, Battles/ Hurricanes)
Darlington 'Night Hawk: the biography of F/Lt Karel Kuttelwascher DFC' (William Kimber 1985)
Donnelly 'A quest for wings: from tail gunner to pilot' (Tempus 2000)
Eades 'Turrets of war: WW2 RAF experiences' (Janus 1996)
J Golley 'John Cats-Eyes Cunningham' (Airlife 1999)
Haugland 'The Eagle Squadrons: Yanks in the RAF 1940-42' (D & C 1979)
Haugland 'Eagles War: The saga of the Eagle Squadron pilots 1940-45' (TAB 1992)
H Hewer 'In for a penny, in for a pound: wireless operator in Bomber Command' (Stoddart 2000)
Hill 'To know the sky: life of Air Chief Marshall Sir Roderic Hill' (Kimber 1962)
Leven 'My flying circus: the autobiography of a WW2 bomber pilot' (2007)
Lewis 'A few of the first: thirteen first-hand accounts of flying in the RFC & RNAS during WW1' (Leo Cooper 1997)
Lucas 'Voices in the air 1939-45: incredible stories of WW2 airmen in their own words' (Arrow 2003)
Macmillan 'Into the blue' (Jarrolds 1990 - first published 1929)
B W Martin 'War memoirs of an engineer officer in Bomber Command' (J&KH Publishing)
Douglas Mourton 'Lucky Doug'
Tom Neil 'Gun button to fire' (Kimber 1988)
Page 'Shot down in flames' (biography of Geoffrey Page, shot down 12/8/40)
Peden 'A thousand shall fall: the true story of a Canadian bomber pilot in WW2' (Stoddart 1981, 2000)
H C Randall 'Moths to Mosquitoes: wartime diaries of W/C H C Randall DFC' (HMP 2001)
R A Raymond 'A Yank in Bomber Command' (David & Charles 1977)
Richardson 'Man is not lost: the log of a pioneer RAF pilot 1933-46' (Airlife 1997)
Rodgers 'Navigators log of a tour in Bomber Command' (Merlin 1985)
Rolfe 'Flying into hell' (Grub St 2001)
Mel Rolfe 'To hell and back'
K Skidmore 'Follow the man with the pitcher'
T Spooner 'Clean Sweep: Life of Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom' (Crecy 1994)
Spooner 'Night fighter ace' (biography of Bob Braham; Beaufighters & Mosquitoes)
Thomas 'Spirit of the blue: Peter Ayerst - a fighter pilots story' (Spitfires/ Hurricanes)
Turner 'One of Butch's boys: RAF Bomber Command navigator in WW2' (Woodfield 2004)
O Walker 'Sailor Malan' (Cassell 1953)
A White 'Bread and butter boys'

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