We Salute You

摘要

Keith Ayers - served at Woolfox Lodge and Grafton Underwood, driving the Bedford OXC and Queen Mary trailers during return of the airfield to RAF use after the USAAF left - died on May 15, aged 93; Wg Cdr Peter Bailey - flew Dakotas on D-Day and on the Arnhem operation; later on Canberra PR7s with 80 Squadron - aged 99; AM Sir Roderick Goodall KBE CB AFC* - flew Hunters, Harriers and Tornados and commanded the RAF detachment at Bahrain in the build-up to the First Gulf War - on June 18, aged 74; Flt Lt Eric Harris DFC - Lancaster pilot with 630 Squadron who completed 36 operations - on May 17, aged 99; Flt Lt Peter Hood - flew Lancasters with 514 Squadron; shot down on the disastrous raid on Nuremburg on March 30, 1944, to become a PoW in Stalag Luft I - on May 7, aged 98; AM Sir John Kemball - pilot on ground attack missions in Aden who later took key roles in intelligence and the Gulf War - on June 13, aged 82; Flt Lt Freddie Nicoll DFC - Hurricane pilot with 208 and 6 Squadrons of the Desert Air Force who also flew 'ops' over Yugoslavia - on May 14, aged 100; W/O Jim Wallace - navigator on Wellingtons in the Middle East and Italy - on March 10, aged 97; Gp Capt Harold Walmsley DFC - Spitfire ace with 11 confirmed destroyed while flying with 611,132,130 and 350 Squadrons; commanded 67 Squadron post-war with Sabres - on April 2, aged 98; W/O Colin Wood - wartime navigator with 106 and 83 (Pathfinder) Squadrons -on May 17, aged 98.