"The Frozen Chosen"
440 Squadron in action (any suggestions as to who is the fellow in front of the drawn-back Hurricane canopy, with his hands in the pockets of his flight suit, at 00:23 of the first video? I have an idea but the timeline is wrong); Squadron history is here:
Real flying.
Real flying.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 3:26 p.m.
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Its Sir Douglas Bader
A taxpayer: As I thought (a man after one of my legs and my earliest hero); but in 1944 when 440 had the Hurris he was (I think) in Colditz. He was with the Canadians in RAF 242 in summer of 1940.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader
Mark
Ottawa
Correct but that picture was probably taken when he was commander of the RAF 242 squadron, which had Hurricanes. Probably that some of the others in the picture (242 was almost 100% Canadian) left the RAF and became part of the RCAF 440 later in the war.
A taxpayer: Indeed. Stan Turner, who was in 242, (here's the Bader picture again)
http://www.constable.ca/turner.html
was Canadian Air Attache in Moscow when I was a kid. And when I scoffed "Jane's All the World's Aircraft", 1949-50 and 1955-56 (not to mention "Jane's Fighting Ships", 1942).
Mark
Ottawa
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