Robert Wright was a biographer of the officer who commanded which squadron during WWI?
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Robert Wright (historian) Robert Wright (1906 – 1992) was a historian and biographer of Hugh Dowding, the RAF's commanding officer in the Battle of Britain. Wright served as Dowding's personal assistant during the Battle. In his book "Dowding and the Battle of Britain" (1969) Wright was one of the early proponents of the Big Wing conspiracy theory that blamed Trafford Leigh-Mallory and the British Air Ministry for Dowding's removal from command at the end of the battle. Many of Wright's claims, some based on Dowding's faulty recollections, have been repudiated by witnesses and documentary evidence, but his allegations have proven popular and persistent over the years.
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Hugh Dowding Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot and then as commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron during the First World War. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain and then joined the Air Council as Air Member for Supply and Research. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defence, and hence, the defeat of Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain. He was unwillingly replaced in command in November 1940 by Big Wing advocate Sholto Douglas.
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Robert K. Wright, Jr. Robert K. Wright, Jr. (born 1946) is an American military historian and author.
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Ronald Graham (RAF officer) Air Vice Marshal Ronald Graham, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (19 July 1896 – 23 June 1967) was a First World War flying ace of the Royal Naval Air Service. Remaining in the Royal Air Force after that war, he rose to the rank of air vice marshal during the Second World War.
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Philip Hunter (RAF officer) Philip Hunter, DSO (11 April 1913 – 24 August 1940) was a Royal Air Force pilot, squadron commander and a Second World War flying ace, awarded the Distinguished Service Order for leading the destruction of thirty-eight enemy aircraft in only two missions over the Dunkirk evacuation beaches in May 1940. He was killed in action leading his squadron during the Battle of Britain.
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Robert George (RAF officer) Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George, (27 July 1896 – 13 September 1967) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia from 23 February 1953 until 7 March 1960. He was born in the County of Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, on 25 July 1896, and educated at Invergordon and Inverness. In May 1927, he married Sybil Elizabeth Baldwin.
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Augustus Paget (RAF officer) Second Lieutenant Augustus Paget {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1898 – 30 October 1918) was a British World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.
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James Rankin (RAF officer) Air Commodore James Rankin, (7 May 1913 – March 1975) was a Royal Air Force officer, fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War.
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Eric William Wright Air Commodore Eric William "Ricky" Wright (21 September 1919 – 5 November 2007) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force who flew Hurricanes with No. 605 Squadron in the Battle of Britain.
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Norman Williams (RAAF officer) Norman Francis Williams, (3 November 1914 – 30 June 2007) served as an air gunner in Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) bombers in the Second World War, becoming its most highly decorated non-commissioned officer. A rear gunner in a Halifax bomber, he was credited with shooting down 8 German aircraft and damaging several others, making him the RAAF's only "ace" who was not a fighter pilot.
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Alfred Haines (RAF officer) Lieutenant Alfred John Haines {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1898–10 August 1918) was a British World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.
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Evan Mackie Evan Dall "Rosie" Mackie, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (31 October 1917 – 28 April 1986) was a New Zealand fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. Many New Zealand pilots who served overseas enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF); Mackie chose to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and as such, with 21.5 "kills", he was the highest scoring member of that service.
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Brian Lane (RAF officer) Brian John Edward "Sandy" Lane, DFC (18 June 1917 – 13 December 1942) was a fighter pilot and flying ace of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and an author.
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William Spurrett Fielding-Johnson William Spurrett Fielding Johnson MC and Bar, DFC (8 February 1892 – 10 February 1953) was a British military officer who served in both World War I and World War II. Originally an Army officer, he later joined the Royal Flying Corps, and became a flying ace credited with six aerial victories, and ended the war as a captain with two awards of the Military Cross. In World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross and rising to the rank of squadron leader.
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Jeaffreson Greswell Air Commodore Jeaffreson Herbert Greswell CB CBE DSO DFC RAF (28 July 1916 – 19 November 2000) was a British pilot during World War II and a senior Royal Air Force officer in the post-war years.
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Anthony Heward Air Chief Marshal Sir Anthony Wilkinson Heward, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1 July 1918 – 27 October 1995) was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander.
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Sydney Fremantle Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (16 November 1867 – 29 April 1958) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who served during the Victorian era and had risen to the rank of rear-admiral by the outbreak of the First World War. He played a role in developing fleet communications and signalling methods prior to the war, but was hampered in effectively implementing them due to the disruption caused by the conflict. He had an active seagoing career during the war, commanding several of the cruiser squadrons, and later taking command of the British fleet in the Aegean. Promoted to vice-admiral after the end of the war and given command of the First Battle Squadron, Fremantle oversaw the interned German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, and was away on exercises when the sailors began to scuttle their ships in June 1919. He attempted to salvage what he could, later accusing the German commander, Vice-Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, of a shameful breach of honour. Fremantle rose to full admiral and commanded the naval base at Portsmouth, retiring in 1928. He wrote his memoirs, publishing them after the Second World War, and donated many of his papers to institutions before his death in 1958.
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Robert Tilney Brigadier Robert Adolphus George Tilney, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (2 November 1903 - May 1981) was a British Army officer who served during the Second World War.
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Richard Minifie Richard Pearman Minifie, (2 February 1898 – 31 March 1969) was an Australian fighter pilot and flying ace of the First World War. Born in Victoria, he attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. Travelling to the United Kingdom, he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service in June 1916. Accepted for flight training, he completed his instruction in December and joined No. 1 (Naval) Squadron RNAS on the Western Front in January 1917, flying Sopwith Triplanes. He went on to score seventeen aerial victories on this type of machine throughout the year, becoming both the youngest Australian flying ace of the First World War and No. 1 (Naval) Squadron's highest-scoring ace on the Triplane. The unit re-equipped with the Sopwith Camel late in 1917, with Minifie going on to achieve a further four victories on the aircraft, raising his final tally to a score of twenty-one aircraft shot down.
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Robert Willock Air Vice-Marshal Robert Peel Willock, (17 December 1893 – 22 March 1973) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who commanded the British Air Forces in Iraq during the Second World War.
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Robert Kirby Kirkman Captain Robert Kirby Kirkman {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (25 June 1891 – 9 May 1938) was an English World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories.
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Robert B. Westbrook (pilot) Robert Burdette Westbrook (9 November 1917 – 22 November 1944) was a United States Army Air Forces lieutenant colonel and a World War II flying ace. Westbrook, a member of the California National Guard before World War II, completed flight training in 1942, and was sent to the South Pacific with the 44th Fighter Squadron, which he later commanded. Westbrook gained his first victories while flying the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and in late 1943 began flying the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. After scoring his fourteenth victory, Westbrook was sent back to the continental United States on leave in spring 1944, returning as aide to the commander of the Thirteenth Air Force. In late summer he became deputy commander of the 347th Fighter Group. With 20 victories, Westbrook became the Thirteenth Air Force's highest scoring ace. He was killed in November 1944 while strafing a Japanese gunboat.