About Reginald Waite
Lived 1901 – 1975 (aged 73). Reginald Waite was a British military personnel.
Air Commodore Reginald Newham Waite, (30 June 1901 – 7 May 1975) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the middle of the 20th century.
Waite joined the RAF in 1920, receiving his initial instruction as a flight cadet at the RAF College Cranwell in Lincolnshire.
In 1948, while Waite was Head of Disbandment at the headquarters of the Allied Control Commission, he suggested that the Berlin Blockade could be broken by an airlift. Subsequently, the British and Americans started a joint operation to circumvent the Russian blockade of all overland routes.
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Who was Reginald Waite?
Senior RAF officer (1901–1975)
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Reginald Waite was born on 30 June 1901.
When did Reginald Waite die?
Reginald Waite died on 7 May 1975.
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Reginald Waite was a military personnel.
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Reginald Waite was British.
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