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Old 21st November 2014, 20:41
Mark Copeland Mark Copeland is offline
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WWII Fleet Air Arm Color Photo and Identification - Is this Eric "Winkle" Brown???

Hello Everyone!

I was wondering if anyone could identify the attached pilot photograph of a Supermarine Seafire pilot.

Is this Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown?? Or can anyone make a positive I.D. of who the gentleman is????

Thank you for taking a look!!

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Old 21st November 2014, 21:43
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Re: WWII Fleet Air Arm Color Photo and Identification - Is this Eric "Winkle" Brown???

Does not look like him to me Mark, met him a long time ago but he was retired then.
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Old 21st November 2014, 22:02
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Re: WWII Fleet Air Arm Color Photo and Identification - Is this Eric "Winkle" Brown???

Appreciate it Tony....I hope someone can offer a second opinion. His record makes Yeager look like a private pilot....amazing chap.

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Old 21st November 2014, 22:42
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Re: WWII Fleet Air Arm Color Photo and Identification - Is this Eric "Winkle" Brown???

I have met Eric Brown and I would say that he is a man of surprisingly small physical stature - possibly 5'6" ish. I don't think he is the man in this photo.

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Old 21st November 2014, 23:55
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Re: WWII Fleet Air Arm Color Photo and Identification - Is this Eric "Winkle" Brown???

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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Old 26th November 2014, 13:05
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Re: WWII Fleet Air Arm Color Photo and Identification - Is this Eric "Winkle" Brown???

This is Winkle in 1941 with 802 Sqn. Not the same apparently.
Mark are you the chap from the 8thAFHS ?

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Old 27th November 2014, 03:31
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Re: WWII Fleet Air Arm Color Photo and Identification - Is this Eric "Winkle" Brown???

There is a recent BBC documentary "Memories of a WWII Hero: Captain Brown's Story" which should clear this up. It recently became available for streaming on Netflix.

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Old 27th November 2014, 05:23
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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,
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