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Fighter Wing. During this time he flew in support of the Allied landings on Sicily. On 12 July his Mark IX Spitfire was badly damaged in combat, but this episode ended well when he landed at Safi airfield on Malta with his aircraft riddled with cannon shells in fuselage, elevator
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Alfred Scharl of 2./JG 53 who was credited with a kill at 17:20 2 September 1943, 15 km north of Tropea at low altitude. The identity of the German pilot who severely damaged the Walrus is not known. After all those sunburns, injuries, wounds and the return of his ear pain from 19 August 1942,
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rigger neatly snapped this with a sharp blow from his fingers. "You will not be needing that any more," he grinned at me. "It all looks very untidy – doesn't it?" Another cannon shell had torn big pieces out of the elevator and rudder surfaces.
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Officer Smith has destroyed at least three hostile
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524:(1981), an account of aerial combat in the
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379:in October 1940. He was awarded a
258:Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith
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341:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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685:Spitfire Mark V Aces 1941 – 1945
463:Heinrich Steis from 4./JG 27 or
391:up to speed. He was promoted to
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309:Leader of the Conservative Party
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582:, the admiral who defeated the
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983:Waugh, Paul (20 March 2014).
727:"Group Captain Duncan Smith"
576:Coalition government of 2010
658:Distinguished Service Order
643:Distinguished Service Order
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94:mascot in Italy, 1943
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985:"Battle for Britain"
842:Spitfire into Battle
829:Spitfire into Battle
667:Air Efficiency Award
588:Battle of Camperdown
526:Supermarine Spitfire
522:Spitfire into Battle
385:No. 603 Squadron RAF
373:No. 611 Squadron RAF
355:at the start of the
305:Member of Parliament
236:Air Efficiency Award
698:Price, Dr. Alfred.
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353:sergeant
278:Two Bars
195:Commands
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