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South African Aces of WW2

"Tiger's Strike" - Sailor Malan, 13 October 1940  by Vladimir Urbanek
"Tiger's Strike" - Sailor Malan, 13 October 1940        by Vladimir Urbanek

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Marmaduke "Pattie" Pattle

"Tom" "Pat" "Pattie"

* Marmaduke Thomas St.John Pattle  (both)    

(KIA 20apr41)

62 - 41 * *

Adolph Gysbert "Sailor" Malan

"Sailor"

Adolph Gysbert Malan (RAF)

30.5 - 27

Johannes Jacobus "Chris" Le Roux

"Chris"

* Johannes Jacobus Le Roux (RAF)

(MIA 29aug44)

23.5 - 18

Petrus Hendrick "Dutch" Hugo

"Dutch"

Petrus Hendrick Hugo (RAF)

18 (+ 4 prob, 13 dam)

Albert Gerald Lewis

"Lew"

Albert Gerald Lewis (RAF)

18 *

* Newell Orton (RAF)

(KIA 17sep41)

17

"Alex"

* Alexander Coultate Rabagliati (RAF)

(MIA 6jul43)

16.5 - 7

John Frost

John

* John Everitt Frost (SAAF)

(MIA 16jun42)

15 - 14.33

Charles Patrick Green

14

S. R. Whiting

13

"Kees"

Cornelius Arthur Van Vliet (RAF)

12

Ken

Kenneth Weekes Driver (both)

(POW 14jun41

12 - 10 )

"Benny"

Malcolm Stephen Osler (both)

12 - 9.5

Carl R. Davies (RAF)

10.5

"Andy"

Andrew Christian Bosman (SAAF)      

10.5 - 8.87

"Ted"

E. J. Morris

10

"Bob"

* Robert Henry Talbot (both)

(KIA 3jun41)

10 - 7

"Serv"

Servaas van Breda Theron (SAAF)

10 - 5

 

 

 


SAAF Spitfire by Darryl Legg

"Doug"

Douglas William Golding (SAAF)

9.9 - 6.5

George Robert Arthur McGarel Johnston (RAF) 

9.83

Carl

* Carl Raymond Davis

(American parents)
     KIA 6sep40)
9.5    (+ 2 OTG)

D. H. Loftus

9.33

Henry

Henry Patrick Lardner-Burke (RAF)

8.5 - 7.5

Eric

* Eric Cowley Saville (both)

(KIA 19sep43)

8

Tom

* Thomas Young Wallace (RAF)

(KIA 11nov44)

8 - 6.5

Robin Pare

* Robin Pare (SAAF)

(KIA 3jun42)

8 - 5

Brian

* Brian Van Mentz (RAF)

(K 26apr41)

7.5

L. A. Wilmot

7

"Hugh"

Basil Gerald Stapleton (RAF)

(POW 23dec44)

6.66

Harry

Harry Starret (RAF)

6.5

"Mac"

* McClelland Eric Sutton Robinson (both)

(KIFA 14nov44)

6.5 - 5.5

* H. F. Smith

6.33

Caesar Barrand Hull

 

* Caesar Barrand Hull (RAF)

(Rhodesian born
      KIA 7sep40)
6 (+ 4 sh, 2 prob & 1 dam)

"Jim"

James Richard A. Bailey (RAF)

6

"Lemmie"

G. J. Le Mesurier

6

"Laurie"

Lawrence Robertson Stuart Waugh (both)

(POW 31dec43)

6

"Dave"

Geoffrey David Leybourne Haysom (RAF)

6 - 5

Dennis

* Dennis Vernon Dold Lacey (SAAF)

(KIA 7aug42)

6 - 5

John

Brian John Lister Boyle (SAAF)

5.5

Andrew Duncan

"Dunk"

* Andrew Duncan (SAAF)

(KIA 31may42)

5.5

"Johan"

Johannes Markel Faure (both)

5.5

* John Henry Gaynor (SAAF)

(KIA 3mar44)

5.5 

John Loch Hewitson (SAAF)

(POW 26jun42)

5.5 - 5

Maurice C. H. Barber (RAF)

5

"Boet"

* Adrian Jacobus Botha (both)

(KIA 14jun41)

5

Louis C. Cooke-Botha (SAAF)

5

"Moon"

Robert Joseph Peter Collingwood (both)

5

* Peter Grenfell Dexter (RAF)

(KFA 14jul41)

5

R. C. Hojem

5

John Daniel William Human (SAAF)

5

Charles James Laubscher (both)

(DSO, DFC & Bar)

5

Vernon Mears Lill Lindsay (SAAF)

5

"Pete"

* Peter Carel Rex Metelerkamp (SAAF) 

(KIA 13dec42)

5

Zulu Morris

"Zulu" "Zuba"

Douglas Griffith Morris (RAF, RCAF)  

(DSO, DFC)

5

J. T. Seccombe

5

H. E. N. Wildsmith

5

Edward Taylor Wilson (FAA)

5 - 4.83

 

 

 

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