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F/O John Manson Finnie

from: Canada Manitoba ... details
update: 2025-07-22

W/C Ronald Edward Bary

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F/L Howard Peter Blatchford

from: Canada Alberta Edmonton ... details
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W/C Percival Stanley Turner

from: Canada Toronto ... details
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F/O Jack Gordon Sanderson

from: Australia South Australia Bordertown ... details
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F/O Anthony Charles Bartley

from: India Dacca ... details
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F/Sgt Henry John O'Keefe

from: United Kingdom Well hall S.E 9 ... details
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Sgt Robert Pollock

from: United Kingdom ... details
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P/O Frederick Ernest Halliday

from: Canada Ontario ... details
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F/O Eskdale Howey

from: Wales Cardiff ... details
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W/O Baron John Herrick Callaghan

from: United Kingdom Copnor, Portsmouth ... details
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Sgt George Alexander Macdonald

from: New Zealand ... details
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W/O Frank Oakley

from: United Kingdom Blyth ... details
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G/C Roy Arthur Lushington Morant

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-06-29

S/L Graham Gordon Ayerst Davies

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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
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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

TP386

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

TP387

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

TP388

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
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TP389

stats: FRXVIII ALD G67 ... details
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TP390

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

as in 'Air Raid!' . . . ...

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

Attribution

Details from Bowyer -'Aire Raid! - The enemy offensive against East Anglia 1939-1945' p.41 ...

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

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