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Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, DL, FRAeS (/ ˈ b ɑː d ər /; 21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.
The Helen Daniels Bader Fund has a history of focusing on Alzheimer's and the health of older adults, while the Isabel and Alfred Bader Fund focuses on "improving the lives of low-income Milwaukeeans and Jewish education throughout the city." [5] The creation of the Helen Bader Foundation Inc was first announced in November 1991. [6]
Gibson was born in Simla, British India, on 12 August 1918, the son of Alexander James Gibson and his wife Leonora (Nora) Mary Gibson. [3] At the time of Gibson's birth, his father was an officer in the Imperial Indian Forestry Service, becoming the Chief Conservator of Forests for the Simla Hill States in 1922. [4]
Marilyn Gillies Carr (born 16 December 1941) is a Scottish woman from Dundee.She was born without arms or hands and uses her feet for all activities of daily living. [1]She appeared with Douglas Bader in the documentary film Two of a Kind in 1971, which contrasted his life as a double-leg amputee with hers as a person with no arms.
Reach for the Sky is a 1954 Australian radio serial based on the book of the same name by Australian author Paul Brickhill which was a biography of Douglas Bader.It was one of the most acclaimed Australian radio dramas of the 1950s, and a notable success for Rod Taylor who played Bader.
Bader was fitted with the new style of legs and returned to active service with the RAF, to become known as "the legless pilot". [ 2 ] In early 1940, the officers' hospital on the station became the Women's Auxiliary Air Force Hospital, [ 3 ] with the Officers' hospital moving to the RAF Hospital Torquay .
The Douglas Bader Foundation; RAF Museum online exhibition of Bader; Douglas Bader at CricketArchive (subscription required) The RAF side who lost 0 – 16 to the Royal Navy in 1931. Douglas Bader is on the far right in the front; Imperial War Museum Interview from 1982; Flying Scholarships for Disabled People. A charity set up in Douglas Bader ...
At the end of her life due to cancer in 1989, [28] the bulk of her estate went into the Helen Daniels Bader Charitable Trusts, the disbursement of which was to be directed jointly by her sons. [29] In November 1991 the creation of the Helen Bader Foundation Inc was announced. [30]