RAF 100; SASRA 180
On 1 April 1918, military history was made as the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Service merged and became the Royal Air Force (RAF) – the world’s first independent air force.
Jamie Campbell, SASRA
This took place during some of the most bitter fighting of World War I. Soviet Russian forces had signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918, ending Russia’s participation in WWI. This allowed the German Army to transfer large numbers of men and their equipment from the Eastern to the Western Front.
