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No. 20 Sector RAF

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ115516962 ↗
Source-derived summary

No. 20 Sector RAF is a former Royal Air Force Sector that was operational during both the First and the Second World Wars.

First World War

20th (Reserve) Wing RFC was formed on 25 July 1916 under the Middle East Brigade at Aboukir. The wing was renamed to 20th (Training) Wing RFC on 31 May 1917 and was disbanded two years later on 22 July 1919.

Second World War

No. 2062 Wing Servicing Wing was active until 24 June 1940 at RAF Cosford where it was disbanded.

No. 20 (Fighter) Wing RAF was formed during December 1943 at RAF Hornchurch within No. 84 Group RAF controlling:

No. 123 Wing RAF (from 10 March 1944)

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “No. 20 Sector RAF” as military unit. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916, 1917, 1919, 2062—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sector, military and unit can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as military unit. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q115516962. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1917, 1919 and 2062.

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This entry incorporates text from “No. 20 Sector RAF” 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.