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21-04-2008, 01:20 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Emile Mange - only Swiss pilot in the RAF? In Max Lambert's excellent (I'm only 40 pages into it) Night after Night, I've come across numerous anecdotes already that need further follow up (including reference to one of two Kiwis who won three DFCs). Anyway, came across this chap, Emile Mange, who Lambert reckons might have been the only Swiss pilot in the RAF. A replacement pilot for a crew that lost their Australian pilot on his second dickie flight, Mange flew with 635 Sqn of the Pathfinder Force (Ernie Mawson and Frank Jackson were the Kiwis on this crew hence the reference). He was apparently a brilliant replacement. Anyone come across him before?
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21-04-2008, 08:16 AM
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21-04-2008, 08:24 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Further info came to light as I was reading today as the crew was again referenced as having stayed together for 62 trips!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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21-04-2008, 08:41 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Emile Albert Oliver Mange DFC* 104465 Commissioned as P/O 2nd Aug. 1941. Commission relinquished (on account of medical unfitness for Air Force service):— Sqn. Ldr. E. A. MANGE (104465) retaining the rank of Wg. Cdr. 26th Apr. 1946. Distinguished Flying Cross 16 Feb, 1945 Acting Squadron Leader Emile Albert Oliver MANGE (104465), R.A.F.V.R., 635 Sqn. Bar to Distinguished Flying Cross 16th November, 1945 Acting Wing Commanders Emile Albert Oliver MANGE, R.A.F.V.R., 635 Sqn.
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25-05-2008, 12:32 AM
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You're Top Poster: #13  | Kyt, my other great uncle, Flight Lieutenant Frank Prebble, DFC, RNZAF, flew with Emile Mange for several trips as bomb-aimer during 1944, over France and Germany, after the D-Day landings.
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01-06-2008, 11:30 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Really? That's amazing! What a connection.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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17-06-2008, 11:45 PM
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You're Top Poster: #13 | Yeah it is. He said that they got along real well, and they often had a beer together in the mess.
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