Originally Posted by SASless
Among those who are known to have served with Fighter Command in the summer of 1940 was Flight Lieutenant James Davies of Bernardsville, NJ, who joined the RAF in 1936. By June 1940, he had shot down six enemy aircraft, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. On 25 June, the day on which he was to have received the DFC from George VI, Davies was shot down and killed.
Flt.Lt James Davies wasn't exactly an American. Although he was born in the USA, both his parents were British and he joined the RAF as a British citizen.
It should be remembered that although almost all the Eagle Sqn. personel transfered to the USAAF, there was a number of US flyers elsewhere in the RAF that elected to stay in the RAF for the duration.
Just 3 examples being, 'Foob' Fairbanks, one of the high scoring Tempest pilots, 'Bob' Kirkpatrick who piloted one of the 21 Sqn. Mosquitoes on the famous
Shellhaus in 1945, and of course Lance Wade who was one of the RAF's leading scoring fighter pilots during WW2.....
