{"id":4066,"date":"2015-07-16T20:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=4066"},"modified":"2015-07-16T20:06:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:06:16","slug":"familiar-faces","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/familiar-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar Face(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I came across this photo of WW2 fighter pilots in their crew room in Autumn 1940y. Does anyone else see a familiar face, albeit a more youthful version?<\/p>\n

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Peter Coombes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The same picture is used in:
\nBattle of Britain Pilot: The Self-Portrait of an RAF Fighter Pilot and Escaper<\/em>
\nby George Barclay, where it is described as pilots at North Weald in late 1940.<\/p>\n

Alan Machin<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Could it be Raymond Baxter facing camera, 4th from the right? I believe he flew Spitfires during WW2. An officer and a gentleman if ever there was one.<\/p>\n

Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Could it be the foreground Vinten tracker, in this still from 1959?<\/p>\n

     
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Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Here’s a clue. <\/p>\n

     
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Compare this photo – derigging at TV Theatre, 8 Dec 1964 – with the pilot sitting under the blackboard right of frame and take off about twenty years. He was a fighter pilot in WW2 and flew both Spitfires and Hurricanes at various times, so it might be him.<\/p>\n

Bill Jenkin<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I know that\u2019s Pete Ware. <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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