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1/Off Charles Ernest Bishop

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F/L Richard Hames Younghusband

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F/L Douglas Barker Crabtree

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F/L William James Corbin

from: United Kingdom Kent Maidstone ... details
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F/L George Wallace Varley

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F/L Arthur Henry Stodhart

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F/L John Harcourt Pickering

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F/L Gilbert Frank Simcock

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F/L James Winter Carmichael More

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F/L Ronald Frank Noble

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W/C John Moreton Nicholls

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F/L Vaughan Charles Fittall

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F/L James Russell Caister

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F/L William Hugh Hughes

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F/L Michael Adrian Graves

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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
update: 2025-10-27

TP389

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TP390

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

TP391

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

TP392

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

TP393

stats: FRXVIII KEA G65 ... details
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TP394

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

TP395

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

TP396

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

TP397

stats: FRXVIII EA G65 ... details
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TP398

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TP399

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* 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