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Forum: Military Aviation
27th Aug 2020, 09:44
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Posted By johnfairr

Fighters in the Blood

Some of you will have read bits of this before (A Spitfire Pilot) in this thread when I transcribed my fathers’ memories and started to drip feed them in this thread. A couple of years ago my...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Nov 2018, 19:32
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Posted By johnfairr

Sandisondaughter 15 Sqn

There is a very fine reference book, "RAF Squadrons" by Wing Commander C G Jefford that gives details of location and aircraft operated by squadron and dates. I've had a flick through the 2nd edition...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Feb 2016, 08:34
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Posted By johnfairr

Talking of trains . . . . .

This is my post of a few years back. #1241




A Spitfire Pilot. Part 12.

By this time, most of us were anxious to get as many hours in on Spits as possible and we were often chatting and...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Dec 2013, 13:02
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Posted By johnfairr

You should see me now . . . . . :}:}

You should see me now . . . . . :}:}
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Dec 2013, 09:25
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Posted By johnfairr

DW Front row, second right ;);)

DW

Front row, second right

;);)
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Dec 2013, 19:03
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Posted By johnfairr

Hastings

Late 1973 I was posted to #1 AD (Air Defence) Course on the F-4 Phantom. Part of the lead-in was for the six navigators to do a bit of radar prediction from topo charts, prior to a trip in an NBS...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Sep 2010, 20:01
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Posted By johnfairr

Cliff and ICare

Sorry that I have been remiss in posting here. The pictures sent did not include any of my Old Man - they were all ossifers, and he wasn't commissioned until he'd been at Biggin for a while in...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Aug 2010, 20:49
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - addendum

The extract below is from post #1379.

The following day Owen Hardy and I were picked for the first aerodrome patrol and our first job was to get rid of the long range tanks. We’d had no...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Aug 2010, 19:55
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Posted By johnfairr

This was posted by regle when I started "A...

This was posted by regle when I started "A Spitfire Pilot" on this thread. I imagine my Old Man and Reg are having a few beers togther right now. Condolences to the family, far and wide - he was a...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Jun 2010, 13:50
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Posted By johnfairr

Regle, You might want to try typing your...

Regle,

You might want to try typing your memoirs in Word or some other Word processing software, then just cut and paste it into PPRuNe? Just a thought. :ok:
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Jan 2010, 12:12
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Posted By johnfairr

Stupid, I know, but I've just noticed that the...

Stupid, I know, but I've just noticed that the last few parts of the memoirs have finished on Page 72. Quite spooky, I'm sure he had a hand in it . . . . :eek:
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Jan 2010, 18:22
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 38 and final instalment

On 30th December George Malan had written me a letter and collected some of my gear and got the r/t sergeant to come and bring it to me, which made a nice change On 31st December we were put aboard...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Jan 2010, 17:32
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 37

This is the penultimate excerpt from my fathers' memoirs and describes his final combat and subsequent wounding.

December 20th 1942 – Aerodrome Patrol, Souk-el-Arba

I didn’t fly on 19th...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jan 2010, 17:42
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 36.

I hung around the Station Adj’s office for some time and when I eventually saw him, I explained what I wanted and he took me in to the Group Captain, whose name, I think, was Edwardes-Jones, and...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jan 2010, 14:06
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Posted By johnfairr

Tom, I'm not a great techno-chappie, so if you...

Tom, I'm not a great techno-chappie, so if you could post the piccies you sent me, with captions, that would be great.

Don't bother with the "Pictures of Everyone" thread, as Cliff suggested. ...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jan 2010, 10:26
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 36

Making a Pigs of Identification, in the Air and on the Ground


On 14th December it was decided to give me a rest and we had an aircraft that was due to be taken back to Algiers for replacement. ...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jan 2010, 10:21
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Posted By johnfairr

Interim Note

Gentlemen, ie Angus and Tom.

Thank you for your interest in the memoirs of my father. I have already been in touch with Tom and also a chap called Erik Manning, who is the official 72 Sqn...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Jan 2010, 15:11
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 35

Bob Oxspring was leading us on a sweep over Zibideja and we were obviously searching for anything we could shoot up and we saw what we thought were bomb-burst down below, not far from a place called...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Dec 2009, 12:37
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 35

Chas Charnock and George Malan take centre stage

George Malan had gone off to get married before we left England and hadn’t reached us by the end of November and consequently I did a fair amount...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Dec 2009, 18:20
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 34

Prisoners Escort

We were always having the odd a-rab* wandering round our tents and aircraft. They were all spies for all we knew, but they used to carry chickens and eggs and oranges and we used...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Dec 2009, 20:07
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 33

Two become one and Beaufighters arrive.

We lost seven or eight aircraft completely destroyed and after that we were never able to put a whole squadron in the air at the same time and consequently...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Dec 2009, 13:13
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 32

Uninvited Guests

If at that time the Jerries didn’t know where we were, it didn’t take them long to find out, because the following day two 109s screeched down the valley, across the aerodrome, up...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Dec 2009, 20:58
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 31

Souk-el-Arba

The next day we scarcely seemed to have been in bed for more than five minutes when we were all called to get up and get packed. Well getting packed wouldn’t normally have taken long...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Dec 2009, 16:44
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 30

The move east to Bone and first blood to Owen Hardy

We each took our turn to patrol Algiers and the docks, to keep off any stray Ju-88s or 109s or whatever they sent down, but we never saw...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Dec 2009, 18:46
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 29

Disembarkation at Gibraltar, November 1942

We’d left Liverpool on 20th October and we disembarked at Gibraltar on 6th November. We were given our billets, which turned out to be Nissen huts on...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Dec 2009, 15:31
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 28

October 1942, en route to Gibraltar

I got back to Ouston to find that we’d had a few other pilots posted in to us, two of them, Jerry le Cheminant and Chas Charnock.* They’d both been in the B...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Dec 2009, 18:52
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 27

While Bob Oxspring was down south, the squadron was taken over by a Squadron Leader Archie Winskill and he was a bit of a miserable character and he didn’t like anybody that we could find. We had...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Dec 2009, 14:52
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,592
Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 26

Postings in and out and in again.

It wasn’t really all milk and honey at Biggin, because during the time we were there we lost several very nice chaps and good pilots. In fact some we lost before...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Dec 2009, 09:27
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,592
Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 25

72 Sqn –A Bounce, A party and A Tale of Two Spits


Anyway on one of the early sweeps that Bob Oxspring took us on, we were jumped over Dieppe, and got split up a bit. Bob was flying with his...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Dec 2009, 18:42
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 24

72 Sqn June 1942 to Lympne, Oxspring takes over from Kingcome

At the end of June the squadron was moved down to Lympne and we could never find out why inasmuch as all we did were convoy patrols...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Dec 2009, 18:45
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Part 23

A real dogfight.

We shared the Biggin Mess with the third Eagle Squadron, 133, and 124 Squadron. Now one of the Eagle pilots had a little tiny dachshund puppy and one of our chaps, Jack Wratten,...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Dec 2009, 21:00
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Plot - Part 22

72 Sqn – June 1942, Channel rescues, stripes and boat-bashing


In June we carried on doing sweeps over France, sometimes taking bombers and sometimes a straightforward fighter sweep in the hope...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Dec 2009, 19:03
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - continued - Part 21

72 Sqn – May 1942 and a trip to Bentley Priory


In May, the weather got better and better and we were kept quite busy. We did a number of sweeps, here, there and everywhere and after I’d landed...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Dec 2009, 19:56
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Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot - Intermission.

This thread has become an instant "page-turner" and I feel it would be best if I left any further instalments from my father until after we have heard how the WOp/AG from Wiley eventually makes dry...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Nov 2009, 19:44
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,592
Posted By johnfairr

A Spitfire Pilot. Part 20.

Royalty visits Biggin Hill - April 1942


King George VI paid us a visit one day when normally we wouldn’t have flown; it was nice and bright but there was a terrific wind and it was an awful job...
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