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 Plt Of John Chatterton DFC (deceased) Died : 2004 *Signature Value : £25 Editions signed : Limited edition of 500 prints. | Chatterton, John (Plt Of John Chatterton DFC (deceased)) Flew thirty sorties with No.44 Sqn as a pilot on Lancasters. The missions he flew included Dusseldorf - where Bill Reid earned his Victoria Cross - and Nuremberg, where a terrible toll of aircraft were lost. Earning the nickname Ace, he also served with No.630 Sqn and No.57 Sqn during the war. Post war he became a university lecurer and farmer, his son Mike joined the RAF flying Shackletons and Nimrods in the 1970s, eventually flying the Lancaster of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, taking his father and some of his surviving crew for a flight in the 1990s. John died in 2004 just as his biography Ploughshare and hining Sword was published. |
| Flg Of Harold Parkin *Signature Value : £20 Editions signed : Limited edition of 500 prints. | Parkin, Harold (Flg Of Harold Parkin) Harold Parkin Joined the RAF in 1941 and underwent initial pilot training was at Stratford-on-Avon, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After the exams he was sent for Northamptonshire to learn to fly in the Tiger Moths. Harold Parkin was posted to Spittlegate near Grantham, a permanent RAF base, where he got his wings in 1942. For a period of time here went to Montrose in Scotland for training as a flying instructor and intructed at Little Rissington, near Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds where he spent the next two years training new pilots. In 1944 he was given a commission and sent to Operational Training Unit at Bruntingthorpe. As part of his flying squad, he had one bomb-aimer and one gunner from Rhodesia, and because of this, the rules required that they came under the (44th.) Rhodesian Squadron. Harold Parkin was involved in the last raid of the war. The mission was to fly to Berchtesgarten, Hitler's retreat in Bavaria. The mission was in broad daylight with 2 fighter escorts, where they proceeded to bomb Hitler's SS barracks in the bottom of the valley. In 1945-6, Harold served in transport operations, being based first in Stradishall, Suffolk and then at Stoneycross in the New Forest. They spent most of that time taking freight to Karachi and ferrying POW from Japanese prisoner of war camps. Harold Parkin left the RAF in 1946 but in 1951 joined the reserve and in 1953 was called up to train Pilots for the Korean war. Harold was at Flying Training Command HQ, near Reading as part of the Examining Board. until his retirement in 1972. Harold piloted the Lancaster Bomber Yorker Mk.111 Lancaster KM-Y 44 (Rhodesia Squadron). Yorker was one of about 35 Lancasters (out of thousands that were produced during the war) which completed over 100 operations. |
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