A Brilliant Fighting Spirit

Only one Victoria Cross was awarded to a fighter pilot of the RAF during the Second World War. Similarly, only one was awarded to a fighter pilot of the Fleet Air Arm – a posthumous decoration for action against the Japanese in 1945.

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SECOND WORLD WAR

The Second World War was one week away from ending with when Canadian pilot Robert ‘Hammy’ Gray earned his VC for an attack on Japanese shipping at Onagawa Bay in the Miyagi Prefecture of Japan. Already, though, Gray had received two Mentions in...

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