Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.
Douglas Bader in 1955
Bader, Fl.Lt. Harry Day and Fl.Off. Geoffrey Stephenson during training for the 1932 Hendon airshow, with a Gloster Gamecock
Squadron Leader D R S Bader, DSO, DFC. (1940) by Eric Kennington,(Art.IWM ART LD 832)
Bader, commanding officer of No. 242 Squadron, sitting on his Hurricane at Duxford during the Battle of Britain in September 1940
Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. Leigh-Mallory served as a Royal Flying Corps pilot and squadron commander during the First World War. Remaining in the newly formed RAF after the war, Leigh-Mallory served in a variety of staff and training appointments throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory c.1944
Leigh-Mallory at No. 11 Group Headquarters, Uxbridge, Middlesex.
Leigh-Mallory at a squadron briefing in France in September 1944.