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Sgt Leonard Ernest James Prout

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-12

Sgt Henry Alan Marshall

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-12

W/O Huon Andrew Chandler

from: New Zealand ... details
update: 2026-08-12

F/O James Humphrey Ferguson

from: Australia Rupanyup, Victoria ... details
update: 2026-08-12

S/L Donald Carlson

from: New Zealand Owhango ... details
update: 2026-08-11

F/Sgt Stanley Percival Jenkins

from: United Kingdom Barking ... details
update: 2026-08-11

Capt Sydney Cohen

from: South Africa Bothaville ... details
update: 2026-08-11

F/O Sydney Lawrence Weggery

from: New Zealand ... details
update: 2026-08-11

Sgt Charles Marcus Guy Watson

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-11

F/O John Selby Gibbins

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-11

F/O H P Cronk

from: Canada ... details
update: 2026-08-11

F/O Michael Charles Folkard

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-11

F/O Thomas Howard Allen

from: Australia ... details
update: 2026-08-11

P/O Ian Dickson

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-11

F/L Edgar Norman Ryder

from: India Risalpur ... details
update: 2026-08-10
 
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VP472

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP473

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP474

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP475

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP476

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP477

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP478

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP479

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP480

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP481

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN488

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN489

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN490

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN491

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN492

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

Broken link and misattributed reference.

Have submitted a corrected link to RAF Archives. The Mary Ellis video linked is NOT for this pilot. Mary Ellis (nee Wilkins) of the IoW was ...

on: pilots, 2025-07-29 ... details

Sold!

Evening All. The album sold shortly after being highlighted here. I would like to have known more about its provenance - as it's not clear ...

on: article, 2025-07-22 ... details

P/O Simpson

12 Spits airborne to escort 24 A20's to bomb targets. P/O M.F Simpson was killed shortly after t/o when his Spitfire crashed. 6.8.44. ...

on: aircraft, 2025-07-13 ... details

Photo Removed

Done ...

on: aircraft, 2025-06-27 ... details

MH635 Photo Removed

MH635 photo removed, already on MH653 ...

on: aircraft, 2025-06-22 ... details

Photo Removed

Photo removed from TD117, is already on TD157 ...

on: aircraft, 2025-06-22 ... details

No. 1 Course at No. 4 B.F.T.S. ( 1941 ).

Good afternoon Mr. Phelps, My name is Mehdi Schneyders and I have sent to you an E - mail regarding P/O William MacFarlane, with whom you ...

on: profile, 2025-06-22 ... details

Final flight

MJ580 written off and scrapped after the emergency landing at Hilversum on 17th May 1952 due to engine problems. Pilot made it out safe. ...

on: aircraft, 2025-06-05 ... details