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* recent pilots updated

Sgt John Edward Anderson

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-30

P/O Kenneth Harold Rowlands

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

Sgt Geeorge Wade Rogers

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

F/L John Bean Shepherd

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

S/L Cyril Leslie Page

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

P/O Edward Brian Mortimer-Rose

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

P/O Ronald MacKay

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

P/O Charles Patrick Igglesden

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

P/O Douglas Newcombe Hookway

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

F/L Alan Stuart Harker

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

P/O Norman Harold Goodall

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

W/C Ernest Waite Wootten

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

F/L Ivor Herbert Edwards

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-04-29

Sgt Edward John Denton

from: United Kingdom Brigg, Lincolnshire ... details
update: 2025-04-23

F/L George Thomas Young Melville

from: Scotland Kelso ... details
update: 2025-04-23
 
* recent aircraft updated

TP446

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP447

stats: FRXVIII Super G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP448

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP449

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP375

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP376

stats: FRXVIII KEA G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP377

stats: FRXVIII EA G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP378

stats: FRXVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP379

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP380

stats: FRXVIII EA G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP381

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP382

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP383

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP384

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP385

stats: FRXVIII KEA G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

20 Nov - possible confusion re: Do.17 an

Detail of He.111 incident involving 74 Squadron (pilots, Measures, Temple-Harris and Flinders) on 20 Nov 39 comes from Bowyer's book 'Air Ra ...

on: pilots, 2023-10-03 ... details

Correction

72 Course at 71 OTU appears to have been around Dec 1944 to Mar 1945, not as recorded above ...

on: pilots, 2023-09-16 ... details

Sgt Dave Webster

Sgt Webster was on 72 Course at 71 Operational Training Unit at Ismailia, Egypt around Sept to Dec 1944, then at 5 Refresher Flying Unit at ...

on: pilots, 2023-09-16 ... details

P7606 is the Polish spitfire incorrectly identified elsewhere on the internet as P8713. Details obtained from higher resolution photo of cap ...

on: pilots, 2023-08-29 ... details

"Syd" Ford

This pilot was s/l Leslie Sydney Ford later to be wing commander , D.F.C awarded at dieppe in this aircraft ,he later was awarded a bar to h ...

on: aircraft, 2023-08-25 ... details

Ft/Sgt Michael J Murayda

First assigned to Ft/Sgt Michael Murayda of 302 squadron in March of 1944. Squadron marking as shown in the above image. ...

on: aircraft, 2023-08-21 ... details

No. 315 ( Polish ) Squadron is listed as P8713 on day of shooting down and capture of aircraft by Germans ...

on: pilots, 2023-08-16 ... details

P8713

P8713 is recorded in RAF records as being 72 Squadron, however an internet search also shows P8713 listed as PK-O shot down on same day but ...

on: pilots, 2023-08-16 ... details