Flying Officer Ted Kosh’s Hawker Tempest V of No.3 Squadron, RAF July 1944
While it wasn’t a very glamorous job, taking on the V1’s pounding southern England almost every day was still very dangerous. Tipping could damage…
Lt. Bill Wisner’s USAAF North American P-51B-10-NA S/N 42-106449
Lt. William “Bill” Whisner DSC, USAAF Only one Air Force pilot was both an ace in two wars and a […]
F/O Chet Popplewell’s Douglas Boston MkIII, March 1943
“This airman is a sound pupil, though inclined to be cautious, learns quickly and has made good progress in all departments of his flying training. Shows exceptional ability at night flying, and will develop into a sound, safe pilot.”
Major Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld’s MESSERSCHMITT BF 110G-4 March, 1944
…it was because Weissenfeld had been marked for elimination, that the aircraft was destroyed over the Ardennes Forest in Belgium…
CV-9 USS Essex & AVG-83, March-August 1945
“I often think of 409 at the bottom of the Pacific with some of my personal gear aboard. After all this time there is probably nothing left…”
Flying Officer Ian Keltie’s Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXc
“August 24, 1942 was a particularly hot day, as I recall. It was to be a hot day in more ways than one…”
Wing Commander Peter Mallan Brothers’ Spitfire HF.Mk.VIIc
Air Commodore Peter Mallan Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC Born in 1917, Pete Brothers learnt to fly at age 16. He joined […]
