It is SAID that more pilots died during training than died in combat during WW2. Is this true?
Is there a compilation somewhere?
How can it be split between Fighter, Bomber Commands, Coastal et al commands - when it is unknown where pilots under training were going to be assigned?
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- Tue 04 Oct, 2016 11:03 pm
- Forum: Military History
- Topic: Training v Combat Pilot deaths
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- Sun 02 Oct, 2016 11:49 pm
- Forum: Military History
- Topic: Duty Pilots - Fighter Squadrons WW2
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Duty Pilots - Fighter Squadrons WW2
What was the role of the Duty Pilot when so assigned on a Fighter Squadron during WW2? On what basis were Duty Pilots so assigned? My father a Sgt.Pilot was Duty Pilot with 234 squadron when 'sent up' on his own to join the rest of his flight who had got involved in a scrap with some Me109's. In my ...