You searched for: “smythe and rupert”
# | Name* | First Names | Title | Rank | RAF Equivalent Rank | Service No. | Born | Nationality | Role | Awards | Air Force | Command | Unit | DateofIncident *See Note | Aircraft | Type | Serial | Code | Victories (Fighters) | Base | Time | Mission | Incident | Fate | Commemorated | Photo (Click to Expand) | Referring Database | Notes | Links/Archive Reports |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Smythe | Rupert F | Pilot Officer | Pilot | Fighter | 32Sqn | 1940-08-14 | Hurricane | I | P3171 | Patrol | Damaged in combat over Dover | Safe | L-R:Pete Brothers - Rupert Smythe | On 14 August 1940, while scrambled with A Flight of No 32 Squadron RAF at 12.30hrs, P/O Rupert F Smythe, spotting 9 Me 109 fighters 30 minutes into the patrol, circling above at 16,000ft northwest of RAF Hawkinge, caught up and despatched one off Dover, flown by Fw Gergard Kemen of JG26, who bailed out, badly wounded, over the Channel. Hit in the glycol tank of Hurricane Mk I GZ-N, the 25-year-old Irishman made an emergency landing at the airfield. | ||||||||||||||
2 | Smythe | Rupert F | Pilot Officer | Pilot | Fighter | 32Sqn | 1940-08-24 | Hurricane | I | V6568 | Patrol | Returned damaged | Wounded | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Smythe | Rupert Frederick | Pilot | DFC | Fighter Command | 504Sqn 32Sqn | 6 | Left the service in 1946 as a Flight Lieutenant[14] Ace |
Results 1 to 3 of 3.