| Aircrew Forum 2005 |
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| The Ballroom, Bletchley Park, Tuesday 12th July 2005 |
| Our Aircrew Forum Participants |
| We were once again honoured to welcome Air Marshall Sir Roger Austin KCB AFC FRAeS RAF (Retired) as our chairman for the evening. Roger has chaired our two previous Crew Forums and we were delighted to have him on board once more. The list of participants who took part in Aircrew Forum 2005 are listed below. Jack Biggs - Royal Air Force Hurricane and Spitfire pilot with 17 Squadron, based in India and Ceylon from 1942 to 1944. Jack Bromfield - Royal Air Force, enlisted in 1942 as a Wireless Operator / Air Gunner and served with 158 (Halifax) Squadron at Lissett. Peter Fahy - Royal Air Force Spitfire photo-reconaissance pilot. Spent time at RAF Benson before moving on to serve with 16 Squadron in the later stages of the war. Sam Halpert - United States Army Air Force B-17 Navigator. Completed 35 missions with the 324th Bomb Squadron 91st Bomb Group at Bassingbourn. Jim Langford - Fleet Air Arm. Jim trained on the Barracuda, which he describes as a wonderful aeroplane to fly, before moving on to carrier operations in the Far East with the Grumman Avenger. Norbert Hannig - Leutnant Colonel Luftwaffe, flew with JG 54 in early 1943 on Bf.109s, then Fw.190. Credited wth 42 victories, he also flew with JV.44 (whose CO was Adolf Galland) towards the closing stages of the war, flying Me.262 jet fighters. Peter Spoden - Luftwaffe Me.110 and Ju.88 night-fighter ace with 24 victories. Flew with NJG5 and NJG6. Branse Burbridge - Royal Air Force. Branse spent most of his career with 85 Squadron flying Havoc and later Mosquito night fighters. With his radar operator Bill Skelton, he claimed 21 victories in ten months of operations to become the highest-scoring RAF night fighter of the war, beating Group Captain John "Cat's Eyes" Cunnigham by a single victory. Norm Rosholt - United States Army Air Force. A B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 8th Air Force's 452nd Bomb Group, based at Deopham Green, Norfolk from January 1944 to August 1945. He completed 30 missions, being shot down over the Dutch border on his 31st in March 1945 and taken prisoner for the remainder of the war. |
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