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Title: Name This...(817)
Post by: brady on June 30, 2004, 11:48:04 AM

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(http://www.myphotodrive.com//uploads/686_13.JPG)

Title: Name This...(817)
Post by: Westy on June 30, 2004, 12:00:00 PM

spitfire!

Title: Name This...(817)
Post by: Guppy35 on June 30, 2004, 05:11:08 PM

Well known RAF pilot and ace, Sailor Malan on the right.  Looks like he'd reached Group Captain status by the time of the photo.

No clue on the man he is talking to.

Malan postwar was very active in the anti apartheid movement in South Africa but died from Parkinsons Disease in 1963

Dan/Slack

Title: Name This...(817)
Post by: MiloMorai on June 30, 2004, 07:51:23 PM

Could the other be one of the Tuskenee(sp??) pilots?

Title: Name This...(817)
Post by: Guppy35 on June 30, 2004, 09:58:44 PM

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Originally posted by MiloMorai
Could the other be one of the Tuskegee(sp??) pilots?

They didn't fly from England.  Possibly a Nigerian or Rhodesian pilot flying with the RAF?


Dan/Slack

Title: Name This...(817)
Post by: storch on June 30, 2004, 09:59:53 PM

Benjamin O. Davis

Title: Name This...(817)
Post by: brady on July 01, 2004, 10:41:59 PM

Malan, it is:)

It is, Flight Sergent V. Bunting a Jamacian Spitfire piolet.



 Picture. Circa 1943.