Colditz prisoners of World War II: David Stirling, Airey Neave, Douglas Bader, Charles Upham, Michael Sinclair, George Lascelles / Source: Wikipedia

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: David Stirling, Airey Neave, Douglas Bader, Charles Upham, Michael Sinclair, George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, David Peter Lafayette Hunter, Micky Burn, Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, Gris Davies-Scourfield, Charles Merritt, Hedley Fowler, Antoni Chruściel, Hugh Bruce, Anthony Luteyn, Tony Rolt, Pat Reid, Hugo Ironside, Hans Larive, Ronald Littledale, Jock Hamilton-Baillie, Ivan Ewart, Yves Congar, George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, Giles Romilly, Bill Goldfinch, John William Best, Machiel van den Heuvel, Walter Morison, Kenneth Lockwood, Brian Paddon, Michael Alexander, Lorne Welch, Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, Damiaen Joan van Doorninck, Pete Tunstall, Pierre Mairesse-Lebrun, Howard Wardle, Francis Steinmetz. Excerpt: Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader ( ) CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, FRAeS, DL (21 February 1910 - 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 20 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. Bader joined the RAF in 1928, and was commissioned in 1930. In December 1931, while attempting some aerobatics, he crashed and lost both his legs. Having been on the brink of death, he recovered, retook flight training, passed his check flights and then requested reactivation as a pilot. Although there were no regulations applicable to his situation, he was retired on medical grounds. After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, however, Bader returned to the RAF and was accepted as a pilot. He scored his first victories over Dunkirk during the Battle of France in 1940. He then took part in the Battle of Britain and became a friend and supporter of Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and his "Big Wing" experiments. In August 1941, Bader was forced to ba...
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