WW2 Dambuster ACM Ralph Cochrane Signed Signature Piece, With Black and White Photo, Mounted Professionally and ...

WW2 Dambuster ACM Ralph Cochrane Signed Signature Piece, With Black and White Photo, Mounted Professionally and Framed to an overall size of 11x8 inches approx. Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane, GBE, KCB, AFC (24 February 1895 - 17 December 1977) was a British aviator and Royal Air Force officer, perhaps best known for his role ias AOC5 group and Operation Chastise, the famous "Dambusters" raid. Good condition.

During the Second World War, Cochrane commanded No. 7 Group from July 1940, No. 3 Group from September 1942 and No. 5 Group from February 1943; all these Groups were in RAF Bomber Command. 5 Group became the most efficient and elite Main Force bomber group undertaking spectacular raids. Cochrane commanded the Dam-Busters raid.There was intense, sometimes openly hostile, rivalry between Cochrane and Air Vice Marshal Don Bennett, who saw Cochrane's experimentation with low-level target marking through 617 Squadron in 1944 as a direct threat to his own specialist squadrons' reputation. In February 1945, Cochrane became Air Officer Commanding at RAF Transport Command, a position he held until 1947 when he became Air Officer Commanding at RAF Flying Training Command. During this time he managed the Berlin Airlift. In 1950 Cochrane was appointed Vice-Chief of the Air Staff. Ralph Cochrane retired from the service in 1952. Following his retirement, Cochrane entered the business world notably as director of Rolls-Royce. He was also chairman of RJM exports which manufactured scientific models and is now known as Cochranes of Oxford

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