Jack Baldwin (RAF officer)
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Air Marshal Sir John Eustice Arthur Baldwin, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
Wing Commander Baldwin as Commandant of the Central Flying School c. 1929
Richard Peirse
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, served as a senior Royal Air Force commander.
Jack Baldwin (RAF officer)
…No. 3 Group at RAF Bomber Command. Between 9 January and 21 February 1942, he was acting Commander in Chief of Bomber Command, after the removal of Richard Peirse. During this brief tenure the "Channel Dash" occurred, when the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau escaped from the French port of Brest and fled up the English…
Peirse broadcasting over the radio during the Second World War
Portrait of Peirse commissioned by the Ministry of Information circa 1943