RE: WWII aviator/aviatrix interests you most?

Didn’t know galland supported the plot against hitler. thats most impressive. Dolfo Galland cool guy. great leader, if a bit stuffy for my liking. shame he wasn’t on our side…

IMHO-another shame he was on the wrong side-Werner Molders.

Possibly that great disrespector of authority-Ernst Udet-Never a nazi aparantly, he hated working for them in WWII, and disliked the military from day 1 after the end of the first world war. Fascinating man.

Sorry they were all germans, but you can’t chose which side of an imaginary line you were born on. Its a shame, as i said, they weren’t on our side…

on the civilian side-Amy Johnson(sp). Overcame much adversity (including, methinks, not being a natural pilot) to achieve much. her needless and easily avoidable death over the thames a tragic waste of a great life.

Just personal opinions. both my grandfathers wer in the RAF, one now passed on, as a tomahawk/hurricane/typhoon/tempest fighter-bomber pilot, and one, still alive and well at the age of eighty-one, as a mechanic. Both came from working class backgrounds, and i am very proud of my grandfather for becoming a pilot in the days the RAF was composed principally (or so the stereotype goes) of public schoolboys.

Love Jay