Question: Information: - Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt in the RAF and IAF; FLTLT in the RAAF and RNZAFformerly sometimes F/L in all services) is a junior commissioned air force rank that originated in the Royal Naval Air Service and is still used in the Royal Air Force and many other countries, especially in the Commonwealth. It is also sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in non-English-speaking countries, especially those with an air force-specific rank structure. - The Battle of Britain (German: "die Luftschlacht um England", literally "Air battle for England") was a combat of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attacks from the end of June 1940. It is described as the first major campaign fought entirely by air forces. The British officially recognise its duration as from 10 July until 31 October 1940 that overlaps with the period of large-scale night attacks known as the Blitz, while German historians do not accept this subdivision and regard it as a campaign lasting from July 1940 to June 1941. - Flight Lieutenant Richard Hope Hillary (20 April 1919 8 January 1943) was a Battle of Britain pilot who died during World War II. He is best known for his book "The Last Enemy" (1942), based upon his experiences during the Battle of Britain. - The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II. Germany's military air arms during the First World War, the "Luftstreitkrafte" of the Army and the "Marine-Fliegerabteilung" of the Navy, had been disbanded in May 1920 as a result of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles which stated that Germany was forbidden to have any air force. - The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force. Formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world. Following victory over the Central Powers in 1918 the RAF emerged as, at the time, the largest air force in the world. Since its formation, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history, in particular, playing a large part in the Second World War where it fought its most famous campaign, the Battle of Britain. - Squadron Leader Basil Gerald '' Stapme '' Stapleton DFC ( 12 May 1920 -- 13 April 2010 ) was a RAF officer and fighter ace who flew Spitfires and Typhoons during World War II. He preferred the name Gerald and was nicknamed ' Stapme ' after a phrase used in his favourite cartoon strip Just Jake published in The Daily Mirror . His score of 6 enemy aircraft destroyed , 2 shared destroyed , 8 probably destroyed and 2 damaged , all achieved on Spitfires during the Battle of Britain made him one of the outstanding pilots of that battle and he was revered as one of Richard Hillary 's contemporaries in whose book The Last Enemy , he features . Without doubt he was one of the real ' characters ' to survive the war and to many the quintessential image of a Battle of Britain fighter pilot , complete with handlebar moustache . Given the paragraphs above, decide what entity has the relation 'military branch' with 'royal air force'.
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gerald stapleton