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169%u000b%u0006#%u0006%u0004%u0007%u0001%u0006%u0008%u0001%u0009%u000c%u0006%u0004#%u0004%u0001%u0018%u0006In 1996 the Royal Air Force Historical Society established, in collaboration with its American sister organisation, the Air Force Historical Foundation, the Two Air Forces Award, which was to be presented annually on each side of the Atlantic in recognition of outstanding academic work by a serving officer or airman. The RAF winners have been: 1996 Sqn Ldr P C Emmett PhD MSc BSc CEng MIEE 1997 Wg Cdr M P Brzezicki MPhil MIL 1998 Wg Cdr P J Daybell MBE MA BA 1999 Sqn Ldr S P Harpum MSc BSc MILT 2000 Sqn Ldr A W Riches MA 2001 Sqn Ldr C H Goss MA 2002 Sqn Ldr S I Richards BSc 2003 Wg Cdr T M Webster MB BS MRCGP MRAeS 2004 Sqn Ldr S Gardner MA MPhil 2005 Wg Cdr S D Ellard MSc BSc CEng MRAeS MBCS 2007 Wg Cdr H Smyth DFC 2008 Wg Cdr B J Hunt BSc MSc Mphil 2009 Gp Capt A J Byford MA MA %u000b%u0006%u0004%u0007%u0001%u0006%u0005%u00043%u000f%u00063%u0005%u0018%u0006ffi%u0018%u0004%u0005%u0006On 11 February 1998 the Air League presented the Royal Air Force Historical Society with a Gold Medal in recognition of the Society%u2019s achievements in recording aspects of the evolution of British air power and thus realising one of the aims of the League. The Executive Committee decided that the medal should be awarded periodically to a nominal holder (it actually resides at the Royal Air Force Club, where it is on display) who was to be an individual who had made a particularly significant contribution to the conduct of the Society%u2019s affairs. Holders to date have been: Air Marshal Sir Frederick Sowrey KCB CBE AFC Air Commodore H A Probert MBE MA