In the latest update to the SEAC Aircraft Losses Database, the records of Brewster Buffalo losses in Burma and India have been added. 27 losses can be tracked. While the bulk of the Buffalos involvement in the fighting occurred in…
Lysander N1273 , BF-C of No.28 Squadron. Crashed on Take Off Kohat. Sgt RIDLEY attempted to take off in coarse pitch, failed to gain height and crashed outside the airfield perimeter. Pilot escaped unhurt, but aircraft was written off. In…
The SEAC Losses Database has been updated with Bristol Blenheim losses. The update covers Blenheim losses of aircraft whose flights originated in India, Ceylon and Burma. The total entries are around 240.. and assuming some are damaged, recovered later and…
This recent original photograph printed on Air Ministry paper went on auction on Ebay and went for record prices originally reserved for something with ‘Spitfire’ in its description! The photo shows a Hawker Tempest Mark II landing at Safdarjang airfield…
Mike Medland contributed over 40 photographs from his father’s collection. His father was then Corporal John McLaren Medland (No. 771763) (1922-2012) who served with the RAF from 1940 till 1946. As Mike recalls about his father: John’s maternal grandparents were…
A few years ago, (actually couple of decades ago) I asked myself – I wonder how many aircraft were lost by the RAF and Commonwealth Air Forces in the SEAC Theatre (- The Indian Subcontinent – covering present day India, Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ceylon). There were no published figures, nor reference material available. The data exists, but is scattered among countless books and sources – not consolidated in one single location.
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© IWM (CF 175) © IWM (CF 176) by Matt Poole, Chris Johnson, Paul Kadwill and Rajeshwor Yumnam The Imperial War Museum website has incorrect captions to two still photos in its collection – CF 175 and CF 176 (seen above)…
1 MAY 2016 • 6:20PM Wing Commander Arthur Gill, who has died aged 100, was one of the few survivors from his squadron after the Japanese overran the Dutch East Indies; he went on to become the RAF’s leading dive-bomber…
Courtesy: Joe Baugher The Royal Air Force was supplied with a total of 830 P-47Ds. In RAF service, the “razorback” P-47D was known as the Thunderbolt I and the “bubble canopy” P-47D was known as Thunderbolt II. Thunderbolt Is were…
