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Pages in category "Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 335 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
Francis Peter McKenna OBE (28 February 1906 – 14 February 1994) was a British Royal Air Force service police detective, deputy to Wilfred Bowes who ran the Special Investigation Branch investigation into the murders of recaptured officers who had escaped in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944. McKenna personally arrested ...
Birth name: Alfred Kitchener Gatward: Nickname(s) Ken: Born 28 August 1914 Edmonton, London, England: Died: 19 November 1998 (aged 84) Colchester, Essex: Allegiance United Kingdom: Service / branch Royal Air Force: Years of service: 1939–1964: Rank: Group Captain: Service number: 83251: Battles / wars: World War II Battle of France. Battle of ...
Pages in category "Royal Air Force personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,448 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Norman Cyril Jackson VC (8 April 1919 – 26 March 1994) was a sergeant in the Royal Air Force (RAF) who earned the Victoria Cross during a Second World War bombing raid on Schweinfurt, Germany in April 1944.
Goodman joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and was granted a short service (six-year) commission on 2 September 1939 with the rank of Acting Pilot Officer. [5] He undertook Elementary & Reserve Flying Training and then attended Flying Training School, where he converted to the Hawker Hurricane. On 27 February 1940, he was assigned to No. 11 ...
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny-British military historian and Author, served Royal Air Force Police; Tony Hancock – Comic actor (RAF Regiment) Rex Harrison – Actor, reached the rank of Flight Lieutenant; Rollo Hayman – Rhodesian farmer and politician; Godfrey Hounsfield – Nobel laureate and co-inventor of Computed tomography.
On 30 January 2005 a Royal Air Force Lockheed C-130K Hercules C1, serial number XV179, callsign Hilton 22, was shot down in Iraq, probably by Sunni insurgents, killing all 10 personnel on board. 2006 2 September 2006 - XV230 , Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 of No. 120 Squadron explodes over Afghanistan whilst supporting NATO operations, killing all ...