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Jun 29, 1906 Lewisham, England, United Kingdom Died on 01 Jun 1983 (aged 76)
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- Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike, (29 June 1906 – 1 June 1983) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.
- He served in the Second World War as a night fighter squadron commander and then as a station commander.
- He was Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1960s and, in that role, deployed British air power as part of the British response to the Brunei Revolt.
- Also, in the face of escalating costs, he implemented the cancellation of the British Blue Streak ballistic missile system but then found the RAF was without any such capability when the Americans cancelled their own Skybolt ballistic missile system.
- He went on to be Deputy Supreme Commander Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in the mid-1960s.
