| Searching my usual sites, I found this photo of Lance Wade but no article that gives more information than the one here.
Unfortunately, to become famous in the Allied air forces in WW2, it helped to survive, then you got to write books or give interviews to biographers, sign paintings etc, or maybe to extend their heroic exploits into peacetime - hence the fame of such as Bader, Johnson, Cunningham, Duke etc. I don't begrudge these men their fame at all. But who remembers Pat Pattle, Stanley Lock, or Paddy Finucane, who died young and do not even have a grave? As we get further away from the war, even those in the former category are no longer household names.
The article mentions that Wade died in the crash of a "twin-engined Auster light bomber". Some mistake here, obviously. The Auster was a single-engined light Observation and communications aircraft. Or do they mean an Anson, or some other type? Any more info on this, anyone?
Adrian |