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Pilots in 53 Squadron RAF

Pilot list roughly sorted using the aircraft / unit dates we have.

Sgt Marion Arthur Plomteaux (kifa)


Sgt Ivan Raymond Trafford (kifa)


W/C Richard Thomas Fairfax Gates (ok)


F/O Geoffrey Theodore Baynham (ok)


F/O Anthony Charles Bartley (ok)


P/O John Henry Bateman Burgess (pow)


W/C Robert Duncan Yule (ok)


F/L Arthur Gavan (ok)


F/L William James Corbin (ok)


Sgt George Frederick Parker (kifa)


P/O Joseph Jodoin (kit)


Sgt Raymond Brunette (kit)


Sgt Charles Colborne Gardner (kifa)


P/O James Robert Minard (kifa)


P/O Basil Wilfred Andrews (kifa)


P/O Ronald Berry (ok)


F/L Jozef Gil (kia)


Sgt Ralph Roschman Hill (kifa)


P/O Anthony Richard Henry Barton (kia)


F/O Rene Jean Charles Alfred Dupraz (kifa)


P/O Maurice Campbell Pryce Jones (kifa)


F/L Josef Koukal (ok)


S/L Victor Howard Ekins (ok)


F/O Clarence Gordon Gavan (kifa)


F/O Bertram Shylega (kifa)


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