Alan White
Royal Air Force officer
About Alan White
Born 1932.
Air Vice-Marshal George Alan White, (born 11 March 1932) is a former Royal Air Force officer who served as Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell.
RAF career Educated at Wallace High School in Lisburn, Queen's University Belfast and the University of London, White joined the Royal Air Force in 1956. After seeing action at Chiang Mai during the Laotian Civil War in the early 1960s and then serving with Middle East Command in the late 1960s, he then became Officer Commanding No. 5 Squadron in 1970, followed by appointments as Station Commander at RAF Leuchars in 1973, Director of Operations (Air Defence and Overseas) in 1977 and Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 11 Group in 1979.
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Royal Air Force officer
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Alan White was born on 11 March 1932.
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