Harry Gill
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Air Vice-Marshal Harry "Jimmy" Gill CB OBE RAF was a British World War II
fighter pilot who later rose to be the Director-General of Engineering and Supply Policy at the Ministry of Defence http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/03/19/db1902.xml.
Born in Chesterfield on October 30, 1922, he moved to Newark-on-Trent as a child and was educated at Newark Technical College. Trained as a pilot in the United States, he flew Hurricanes (with 279 Sqn) during the war and Mosquito FB.VIs (with 4 Sqn) in the immediate post-war period. His Mosquito, TA 122, is being restored and will be displayed at the de Havilland Museum at London Colney. He was appointed OBE for his service in Aden during its evacuation in 1967. During his retirement, he remained closely associated with the Royal Air Force, serving for many years as President of the Newark Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association and remaining closely linked to the Air Training Corps (ATC), of which he was a member in his youth (with 47F Sqn at Grantham, when still an Air Defence Cadet Corps Sqn - forerunner of the ATC). He died in January 2008.
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
fighter pilot who later rose to be the Director-General of Engineering and Supply Policy at the Ministry of Defence http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/03/19/db1902.xml.
Born in Chesterfield on October 30, 1922, he moved to Newark-on-Trent as a child and was educated at Newark Technical College. Trained as a pilot in the United States, he flew Hurricanes (with 279 Sqn) during the war and Mosquito FB.VIs (with 4 Sqn) in the immediate post-war period. His Mosquito, TA 122, is being restored and will be displayed at the de Havilland Museum at London Colney. He was appointed OBE for his service in Aden during its evacuation in 1967. During his retirement, he remained closely associated with the Royal Air Force, serving for many years as President of the Newark Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association and remaining closely linked to the Air Training Corps (ATC), of which he was a member in his youth (with 47F Sqn at Grantham, when still an Air Defence Cadet Corps Sqn - forerunner of the ATC). He died in January 2008.