27th November 2014, 04:23
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Alter Hase
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: WWII Fleet Air Arm Color Photo and Identification - Is this Eric "Winkle" Brown???
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Originally Posted by Graham Boak
Wasn't Brown a professional, in the RN? This pilot is "wavy navy" or Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, judging from the stripes on his sleeve. There was a colour photo session on HMS Indomitable when 880 Sq joined with their Seafires, and I believe this was taken at this time, very early 1943?
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On returning to a United Kingdom now at war, he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as a Fleet Air Arm pilot, |