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* recent pilots updated

W/C Hugh Constant Godefroy

from: Indonesia Java ... details
update: 2025-07-23

G/C Alan Charles Rawlinson

from: Australia Fremantle ... details
update: 2025-07-23

W/C Thomas Frederick Dalton-Morgan

from: Wales Cardiff ... details
update: 2025-07-23

F/O John Manson Finnie

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

W/C Ronald Edward Bary

from: New Zealand Taranaki New Plymouth ... details
update: 2025-07-22

F/L Howard Peter Blatchford

from: Canada Alberta Edmonton ... details
update: 2025-07-22

W/C Percival Stanley Turner

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

F/O Jack Gordon Sanderson

from: Australia South Australia Bordertown ... details
update: 2025-07-22

F/O Anthony Charles Bartley

from: India Dacca ... details
update: 2025-07-22

Sgt Robert Pollock

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-07-17

P/O Frederick Ernest Halliday

from: Canada Ontario ... details
update: 2025-07-15

F/O Eskdale Howey

from: Wales Cardiff ... details
update: 2025-07-09

W/O Baron John Herrick Callaghan

from: United Kingdom Copnor, Portsmouth ... details
update: 2025-07-09

Sgt George Alexander Macdonald

from: New Zealand ... details
update: 2025-07-06

W/O Frank Oakley

from: United Kingdom Blyth ... details
update: 2025-07-04
 
* recent aircraft updated

TE527

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE528

stats: LFIX Desford M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE529

stats: LFIX Desford M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE530

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE531

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE532

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE533

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE534

stats: LFIX Desford M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE535

stats: LFIX Desford M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE549

stats: LFIX Desford M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE550

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE551

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE552

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE553

stats: LFIX Desford M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE554

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

145 Squadron DAF 1944-45

I have Blagdon's logbook, modest photo album, flying jacket and a few other bits and pieces (including very fond memories of the few times h ...

on: profile, 2021-05-16 ... details

Authenticity Certificate

Hi wos wondering if you would be able to help me find out why The Certification doesn't match the plate on my Spitfire Rocker arm On the C ...

on: aircraft, 2021-04-28 ... details

Pics

Hi Kevin, do you have any other pics? ...

on: pilots, 2021-04-25 ... details

Loss date

The pilot when shot down was Sgt Gordon William Lash Matthews who was posted missing believed killed and is buried in the Dunkirk Town Cemet ...

on: aircraft, 2021-04-19 ... details

Loss date

The date of the loss is 2-4-43 according to the 451S ORB. No trace of the pilot P/O John Allen Cox was found ...

on: aircraft, 2021-04-15 ... details

Thanks Ade

Thank-you, great stuff. ...

on: article, 2021-03-02 ... details

Air 27 index National Archives via RAF C

Hi Kurt, If you use this link and type in the Squadron number it will take you straight to the downloadable ORB records in a more user fri ...

on: article, 2021-03-02 ... details

Gordon Brettell:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brettell was one of the fifty shot by the Gestapo after The Great Escape. ...

on: article, 2021-02-07 ... details