A Navy trained pilot, Frank Clifford Tallman III provided stunts and aircraft for many movies, including ‘Catch 22’.

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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, GCB, OBE, AFC (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as “Bomber” Harris by the press and often within the RAF as “Butcher” or “Butch” Harris,[ was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.

Born in Gloucestershire, Harris emigrated to Rhodesia in 1910, aged 17. He joined the 1st Rhodesia Regiment at the outbreak of the First World War and saw action in South Africa and South West Africa. In 1915, Harris returned to England to fight in the European theatre of the war. He joined the Royal Flying Corps, with which he remained until the formation of the Royal Air Force in 1918. Harris remained in the Air Force through the 1920s and 1930s, serving in India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, Palestine, and elsewhere.

At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Harris took command of No. 5 Group RAF in England, and in February 1942 was appointed head of Bomber Command. He retained that position for the rest of the war. In the same year, the British Cabinet agreed to the “area bombing” of German cities. Harris was given the task of implementing Churchill’s policy and supported the development of tactics and technology to perform the task more effectively. Harris assisted British Chief of the Air Staff Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Portal in carrying out the United Kingdom’s most devastating attacks against the German infrastructure and population, including the bombing of Dresden. Harris’s orders from the war cabinet to focus on area bombing rather than precision targeting remained controversial owing to the large number of civilian casualties and destruction the strategy caused in continental Europe.

After the war Harris moved to South Africa, where he managed the South African Marine Corporation. He was created a baronet in 1953. He died in England in 1984.

Philip Lucas served with the RAF from 1929 until 1931, becoming a test pilot at A&AEE, Martlesham Heath.

He was awarded the George Medal for test-flying gallantry in 1941.

On leaving the RAF he joined H.G. Hawker Engineering Co as a test pilot and was appointed a director of Hawker Aviation at the conclusion of his flying career in 1945.

In 1948 he became technical sales manage and services liaison at de Havilland and in 1961 was transferred to the Hawker Siddeley Group.

Philip Lucas retired as executive director at Hawker Siddeley Aviation on 39 September 1967.

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