Re: Douglas Pitcairn
 

It would appear that the victory listed for Douglas Pitcairn in the Book Polesti by Dugan and Stewart cannot be documented in other sources [ at least for the present].
Thanks to all of you who responded !

Pyker

Re: Douglas Pitcairn
 

In a follow up to my previous posts on the visit with Douglas Pitcairn, I had the experience of the following intriguing bit. When I was visiting with him after dinner in his study, I noticed a photo of a Saab fighter with him in the picture. I asked about that & he said that after the war (WW2) he went to Sweden to pay a visit to his friend who was the Swedish air force's commander & Pitcairn was offered & he accepted the courtesy of taking the jet fighter for a spin. He did & the photo is after he landed (single seat). He had never flown that acft previously.

In his garage was a porsche & his wife said that he drove very fast. She said he also skiied & went straight down the hills without turning! Talk about a swashbuckler!

Roy

Re: Douglas Pitcairn
 

I did a looking on my papers and found Pitcairn´s sheet with some info on his family. Nothing about his aviation career but guess may be of some interest.

Re: Douglas Pitcairn
 

Dougls Pitcairn lived in Rimsting by the Chiemsee and died last year. He was a very valuable source for my biographies of Lützow and Mölders. With Lützow, he flew in Spain, and with Mölders, he served at JG 134 and JG 51. A very charming, humourous man. The origins of the family are in Scotland, of course, but his branch immigrated to East Prussia in the 17th or 18th century, where they succeeded as ship merchants.

Re: Douglas Pitcairn
 

I have just meet a relation of Douglas Pitcairn.
He runs a genealogy company in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
I was there with the intention of finding out about my partners family history. But while there, I mentioned my passion for aviation, and that's when he told me about Douglas who is in his family tree.
He mentioned his line had emigrated to East Prussia, and that he had flown in Spain.
He told me the story of take off accident which finished his flying..and he ended up at Goering's HQ..something like that.
He was indeed is of Scottish descent.