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The Airmen's stories

(The word Airmen rather than pilots is used throughout the site as obsolete twin-engined Blenheim aircraft were used as fighters and these carried a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner (Wop/Ag) and sometimes an Observer)

March 2008 - there is now too much biographical data and/or photographs on individual airmen to list on this page (and this is being researched and added all the time) - where any data exists the airman's name will appear in blue text on the lists under The Airmen at left, click on the name to go to that airman's page.

F/Lt. J C Mungo-Park

.... a Flight Commander with 12 victories, shot down and killed over Belgium in 1941

P/O J E Sulman

.... a moving account of a pilgrimage to his grave in Libya

Sgt. R T Holmes

.... who brought down a German bomber onto Victoria Station in London

P/O R J W Brown

.... survived the Battle to work on the development of ejector seats post-war

F/Lt. C R Davis

.... one of nine American volunteers, he lost his life over Kent

P/O R J W Simmonds

.... survived the war to be commemorated in a poem in 2000

P/O R E Jones

.... a personal recollection

Sgt T G Oldfield

.... lost at 21 but commemorated in stone in 2007

P/O R J W Stubbs

.... who went on to fly with the Pathfinders of Bomber Command

Sgt. E Salway

.... lost in especially tragic circumstances

F/Lt. I L McG Hallam

.... survived the war only to die in a mid-air collision

Sgt. R W Hillman

.... an air gunner lost in 1942, his pilot awarded a VC posthumously

Sgt F Sumner

.... yet another air gunner who survived the Battle but not the war

F/O N J M Barry

.... a South African who became yet another young casualty

F/O B E Finucane

.... an Irish pilot whose fame led to 3000 people attending his memorial service in London

P/O R A Marchand

.... another casualty of 15 September 1940

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