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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 charity was founded in 1983 by Tim Prince and Paul Bowen of the Royal International Air Tattoo in the memory of Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader, the disabled wartime fighter ace who lost both his legs in an accident in 1931.
After the death of the WW2 RAF fighter pilot Douglas Bader in 1982, Johnson, Denis Crowley-Milling and Sir Hugh Dundas set up the Douglas Bader Foundation, to continue supporting disabled charities, of which Bader was a passionate supporter. [81] Johnson was also the first to recognise the skills of Robert Taylor, aviation artist, in the 1980s.
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]
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.
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 .
Oflag IV-C, generally known as Colditz Castle, was a prominent German Army prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied officers during World War II.Located in Colditz, Saxony, the camp operated within the medieval Colditz Castle, which overlooks the town.
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 ...