This year’s Typhoon Display pilot and his aircraft, (not sure it should be in historic though 🙂 )

And it can go on and on. That is the problem with this foolish attempt to win votes, every time someone is satisfied there will be someone else who feels they should have had a medal. Coastal Command etc… Another thing that rankles with me, in the sense that I think there is an element of selected fairness, is the criteria for the clasp. Would I be correct in saying that if you were killed flying from an OTU between May and Aug 1945 there would be no entitlement, but if you died flying in an OTU before May 45 there would be, i.e, because you were in Bomber Command but your service was curtailed by death?

As with the Bomber Command Memorial; it just hasn’t been done correctly.

I’m not getting outraged, I just believe ones medals are awarded for Valour, Service in certain areas or as in the case of the LS&GC medal for not getting caught. :p
They simply should not have a cash value put on them by the Government that awarded them before funding is provided by the state. If the person himself or herself decides to sell them or give them away then fair enough, once done those monies should be counted as their assets, but if the recipient does not sell them, they should simply be deemed as worthless by the Government or their agents for the purpose valueing their assets towards the cost of their nursing care for as long as that person is alive.

But that is the case. His family would not have been forced to sell his medals, they chose to.

It may be an attempt to stop inappropriate products being associated with the name rather than trying to make money out of it…

55,573 members of Bomber Command died during WW2…

There are 19 pairs of brothers, at least, remembered on the Runnymede Memorial. All Air Services but not necessarily pilots…

DFC was awarded Nov 1944;

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36793/supplements/5206

He could try:

http://www.97squadronassociation.co.uk/flightops6.html

Jim

interesting, ive just had a picture published of R4118 in Britain at War Last of the Few Suppliment (page 6 and 7) so how does Peter Vacher stand for painting a roundel on the fuselage, key for publishing the picture and me for taking it?

Everybody is fine. The roundel is incidental to the picture. I think there is a lot of misunderstanding in this thread.