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April 1918

month of 1918

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ13080392 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following events occurred in April 1918:

April 1, 1918 (Monday)

The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged to form the Royal Air Force, the first autonomous air force in the world.

The first Royal Air Force groups were established including No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 7, No. 8, No. 9, No. 10, No. 11, No.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “April 1918” is month of 1918. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through April and month, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, April and month is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “month of 1918” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13080392. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “April 1918” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.