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W/O Hugo Mostyn Woodward

from: India ... details
update: 2026-02-08

F/Sgt Walter Norman Clark

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update: 2026-02-04

Sgt Robert Gottfreid Schwenke Hassell

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Sgt Edgar Hansen

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Sgt Bruce Edward Pinch

from: Canada Thornbury ... details
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F/L Merlin Davies

from: Zimbabwe ... details
update: 2026-02-01

F/O Carl Earnest Briese

from: Canada Saskatchewan Rosetown ... details
update: 2026-01-31

F/O David Patten

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-01-30

W/C George Frederick Silvester

from: United Kingdom Gravesend ... details
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Sgt James Potter Sillitoe

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F/L Graham Thomas Hugill

from: United Kingdom ... details
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F/L Geoffrey Austen Harrison

from: United Kingdom ... details
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Sgt D J King

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Sgt Dennis Stephen James

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-01-25

F/L John Bendixsen

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update: 2026-01-25
 
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TP407

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

TP408

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TP423

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update: 2025-10-27

TP424

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

TP425

stats: FRXVIII ALD G65 ... details
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TP426

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

TP427

stats: FRXVIII KEA G65 ... details
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TP428

stats: FRXVIII KEA G65 ... details
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TP429

stats: FRXVIII KEA G65 ... details
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TP430

stats: FRXVIII KEA G65 ... details
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TP431

stats: FRXVIII KEA G65 ... details
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TP432

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TP433

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TP434

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TP435

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* recent comments & questions

An email from a daughter's friend

Lieutenant John Carson McAllister was a friend's father and she has had few details about his service. He apparently crashed on approach try ...

on: pilots, 2023-11-12 ... details

Bad link

The link entitled 'The London Gazette' does not work. The 'active' link does! ...

on: pilots, 2023-10-04 ... details

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