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19th November 2010, 01:06
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Re: Non-Commonwealth Wg Cdr Flying
Michal
My info came from Osprey title RAF Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces by Andrew Thomas According to this book W/Cdr Donnet was wing leader of the Bentwaters Wing
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19th November 2010, 11:46
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Re: Non-Commonwealth Wg Cdr Flying
W/C Christie was also Wingco Flying 150 Wing at Andrewsfield before going to Hunsdon.
The Bentwaters Wing was divided into "A" and "B" Wings, and Donnet and Birksted were both Wingco Flying in their respective Wings. There were several Norwegins that were Wingco Flying in the North Weald- and 132 (Norwegian) Wings. Stein
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19th November 2010, 11:57
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Re: Non-Commonwealth Wg Cdr Flying
Stein
Thank you for clarifying. Do you know if Birksted was W/C of the A or the B Wing of Bentwaters Wing. Mikkel
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19th November 2010, 13:14
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Re: Non-Commonwealth Wg Cdr Flying
Hi all,
Thanks a lot for your comments. BTW http://www.revi.cz/images/covers/60/...aterswingu.jpg shows several of Bentwaters leaders in one of my Revi articles. Stein, a very contributory explanation. How was your Kew visit ? For Polish friends - no one of your fighters led British Wing in ETO ? Regards, Michal
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19th November 2010, 14:28
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To my knowledge the only Polish W/Cdr Flying in a non-Polish wing was W/Cdr Jan Zumbach (half-Swiss, anyway) who led 135 Wing for a couple of weeks in July 1944. The wing was part of 18 (Polish) Sector at the time, so I'm not sure if it counts as a a non-Polish one.
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27th November 2010, 13:37
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The visit was quite good. However, the NA was closed to the public on the Monday, so I only spent part of Tuesday. I got the info on Pavlov, and I also photographed the 303 Sqn ORB for the three months you were interested in. However, there are so many photos that I'll have to send quite a few e-mails with several photos attached to each mail. Stein
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27th November 2010, 16:38
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Re: Non-Commonwealth Wg Cdr Flying
thank you
Mikkel
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27th November 2010, 13:31
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Stein
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