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North-Western Area Command was one of several geographically based commands raised by the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. Its wartime sphere of operations included the Northern Territory, adjacent portions of Queensland and Western Australia, and the Dutch East Indies. Headquartered at Darwin in January 1942, it was initially responsible for air defence, aerial reconnaissance and protection of the sea lanes within its boundaries. From 1943, its role became increasingly offensive in nature as the Allies began to advance in New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies. Its combat aircraft ranged from single-engined fighters to heavy bombers, and were flown by Australian, British, American and Dutch squadrons. The area command continued to operate until its responsibilities were subsumed in February 1954 by Home (operational), Training, and Maintenance Commands. The area headquarters was disbanded the following year. (This article is part of a featured topic: RAAF area commands.)
Just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 04:11, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Tks for this and your pro-activeness (proactivity?!) in general here, Dan. Not sure about "Formed and headquartered" but in the main looks fine, tks. I guess I've found the knack for writing leads that almost equal the TFA requirements in terms of wordage... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:11, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- We're at 964, so we've got room to un-condense that a little if you like ... feel free. Yep, your leads are easy to work with, thanks for that. Hope I'm not being provocative! So far the opinions are unanimous in favor of doing these blurbs after promotion in general ... but for any particular blurb, I don't care what happens ... we could hold off, you can write the blurb, we can deal with it later ... whatever you like. - Dank (push to talk) 12:38, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Bloody spell-checker -- tweaked to what I meant above -- proactive not provocative...! :-P Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:49, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Ian, changed "Formed and headquartered" to "headquartered", does that work? - Dank (push to talk) 22:04, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
- Bloody spell-checker -- tweaked to what I meant above -- proactive not provocative...! :-P Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:49, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- We're at 964, so we've got room to un-condense that a little if you like ... feel free. Yep, your leads are easy to work with, thanks for that. Hope I'm not being provocative! So far the opinions are unanimous in favor of doing these blurbs after promotion in general ... but for any particular blurb, I don't care what happens ... we could hold off, you can write the blurb, we can deal with it later ... whatever you like. - Dank (push to talk) 12:38, 13 June 2019 (UTC)