Gordon Brettell
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Edward Gordon Brettell DFC, known as Gordon Brettell, was a British Spitfire fighter pilot who was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the men re-captured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo.
Spitfire fighter
Memorial to "The Fifty" down the road toward Żagań (Brettell is near top left)
Romualdas Marcinkus
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Romualdas Marcinkus was a Lithuanian pilot. Marcinkus participated in an early trans-European flight on 25 June 1934, and was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. In his youth Marcinkus was a Lithuanian multifold football champion and a playing coach for the Lithuania national football team.
Gates of the Kaunas Military School. Marcinkus graduated from here in 1928
Marcinkus reporting after a flight
Marcinkus later became a parachute instructor in the Lithuanian Air Force
Crew of the trans-European flight (from left): Jurgis Savickis, Antanas Gustaitis, Jonas Liorentas, Juozas Namikas, Jonas Mikėnas, Romualdas Marcinkus, and Kazys Rimkevičius near an ANBO 41 plane.