John F. G. Howe
Air Vice Marshal John Frederick George Howe CB CBE AFC RAF (born 26 March 1930) was a senior Royal Air Force officer in the 1970s and 1980s, flying combat missions in the Korean War and North Sea interceptor air patrols during the Cold War and finishing his distinguished career as the Commandant General RAF Regiment and RAF Provost Marshal and Director General Security. Howe also served as the sixteenth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps between 1977 and 1980.
Howe was born in South Africa and educated at St Andrew’s College, Grahamstown. He joined the South African Air Force immediately after leaving school.
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