Funeral Sept. 2 in Comox for Second World War Spitfire pilot
Comox Valley Record
A decorated Spitfire pilot who served during the Second World War is being remembered as a gentleman and a role model after passing away this weekend. Douglas (Duke) Warren, who flew a Spitfire fighter as part of …

Storied Second World War PoW twice escaped his captors
Calgary Herald
Sherk had been forced to land his plane behind enemy lines after his Spitfire engine failed. The two men would spend the next year as roommates, first in a prison camp in the Italian port city of Bari, then in the Sulmona PoW camp, east of Rome. …

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VIDEO: Red Arrows tribute at Wings & Wheels
Get Surrey
The most famous RAF aircraft of all, the Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster, provided a fabulous flypast for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, and a Second World War P-51 Mustang also performed an aerial duet with a Spitfire IX. …

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Ace pilot 'Duke' Warren passes
Canada.com
He later recalled: "We Spitfire pilots ensured air superiority as well as doing armed recee and fighter-bomber attacks. Losses were heavy, both in the Typhoon squadrons and the Spitfire squadrons doing fighter-bomber work. "The flak was plentiful and …

Second World War Spitfire pilot dies in Comox
Comox Valley Record
Warren and his twin brother Bruce were born in 1922 in Nanton, Alta., each fulfilling a dream of being a fighter pilot. Bruce was killed in 1951 when a CF-100 jet fighter he was testing crashed.

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Group Captain Billy Drake
Telegraph.co.uk
After six months in a staff post Drake was back on operations commanding a Spitfire Wing in Malta. Providing escort to USAAF bombers attacking Sicily, he claimed two enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground; and on July 7 he shot down an Italian fighter, …