The Squadron at RAF Digby
46 Squadron at RAF Digby, April 1940: All but two of the pilots were lost in June 1940 during the return with HMS Glorious from Bardufoss, in Norway
On the back row, 5th from left stands 749233 C Stewart Hare, RAFVR
The Battle of Britain: 46 Squadron's Operations Room - "Readiness at Dawn," an extract (with the Pole's motivation laid bare);
Pilot Officer Karel Mrázek, DSO, DFC, of Czechoslovakia ... might this have been the "Czech Squadron-Leader, who spoke nice English" ?
A photograph by C Stewart Hare, also stationed at Stapleford Tawney, the RAF North Weald satellite (and found in his hat-lining)
RAF Middle East - "Airman's Desert" (an extract);
The River Nile; Sailing on the Nile; the Pyramids; by the Great Pyramid;
A German Invasion, almost certainly the Invasion of Kos;
"We rise to Conquer" :
Wing-Commander G A Reid - "the bravest Man [he] ever knew" - who flew to his death over Kos;
and who did so knowingly [in the light of intelligence], we understand, and leading the Squadron personally; of whom not one pilot returned
At Gambut, in the Western Desert; more from the scrapbook; still more; Derring-do and decoration;
more photographs - 46 and also 603 Squadron (to Save)
Colditz - a diversion (unconnected to Squadron)
46 Squadron website links
June 1945 : The Next Generation
Cheerio!