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* recent pilots updated

W/O Walter Chumak

from: Canada ... details
update: 2024-10-11

Sgt Robert Patrick Reilly

from: South Africa Mafeking ... details
update: 2024-10-08

W/C Richard C Cresswell

from: Australia Launceston ... details
update: 2024-10-08

F/L Ross Raymond Gillespie

from: Canada ... details
update: 2024-10-08

W/O Albert Dennis Rowe

from: United Kingdom Hull ... details
update: 2024-10-08

P/O Robert Plimpton Frahm

from: USA ... details
update: 2024-10-08

F/Sgt Tom Watson

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-10-08

S/L James Catanach

from: Australia Melbourne ... details
update: 2024-10-08

F/L Albert Horace Hake

from: Australia Sydney ... details
update: 2024-10-08

F/O Alfred Joseph Herbert Taylor

from: Australia Toowong, Brisbane. ... details
update: 2024-10-05

W/O Mervyn Ross Jacobs

from: Australia Port Lincoln ... details
update: 2024-10-05

F/Sgt Donald Keith Hill

from: Australia ... details
update: 2024-10-04

F/L Frank Musgrove

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-10-04

P/O John Tyrie Aspinall

from: New Zealand ... details
update: 2024-10-02

F/O Johnny Howarth

from: Canada ... details
update: 2024-10-02
 
* recent aircraft updated

TE156

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

TE157

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

TE158

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

TE174

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE175

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE176

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE177

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE178

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE179

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE180

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE181

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE182

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE183

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE184

stats: LFXVI CBAF M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE185

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

discrepancy

seems to be an inconsistency in reports about how shot down - friendly fire vs Do217. ...

on: aircraft, 2017-09-15 ... details

Major Virgil C Fields - Salerno Crash La

shot down by return fire Do217 and pilot Major Virgil C Fields crash landed on beach off Salerno 9-9-43, ...

on: aircraft, 2017-09-15 ... details

Added a lot!

Kevin, you've added an incredible number of pilots, starting with your father. Thanks for documenting all of them as you have. ...

on: profile, 2017-09-05 ... details

forged passport?

Some online sources indicate a forged passport, however, there may have been other aspects to his joining the RAF. Apparently, he did leave ...

on: pilots, 2017-09-04 ... details

70 percent of this rebuild is original p

in one of the videos (martin interviewed) it is indicated that 70% of this aircraft is original parts -- incredible -- and, RR232 claim is v ...

on: aircraft, 2017-09-01 ... details

SS troops in area / massacre

Malmedy on 17th Dec was the site of a massacre of US Army POWs, per the link http://ww2today.com/17-december-1944-kampfgruppe-peiper-massacr ...

on: pilots, 2017-09-01 ... details

original parts?

were any original parts re-used in the rebuild? ...

on: aircraft, 2017-09-01 ... details

Thank you, Kurt!

On behalf of my dad and myself, thank YOU, Kurt, for taking the time to create this page regarding my dad's (Capt.M. Balan) service in the R ...

on: pilots, 2017-08-31 ... details