Russell Aitken (pilot)
Group Captain Russell Faulkner Aitken CBE, AFC (15 September 1913 – 25 February 1989) was a New Zealand-born officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) who pioneered the use of amphibious aircraft for rescuing RAF pilots who had been shot down over the English Channel and the North Sea during the Second World War.
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Russell Aitken (pilot)
Group Captain Russell Faulkner Aitken CBE, AFC (15 September 1913 – 25 February 1989) was a New Zealand-born officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) who pioneered the use of amphibious aircraft for rescuing RAF pilots who had been shot down over the English Channel and the North Sea during the Second World War.
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Group Captain Russell Faulkner ...... here he died at the age of 75.
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New Zealand
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No. 3 Squadron
RAF Bradwell Bay
RAF Hawkinge
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New Zealand
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Second World War
*Norwegian ca ...... *Channel Front
*Baedeker Blitz
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birth date
1913-09-15
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Outram, New Zealand
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1989-02-25
death place
Kenepuru Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand
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Russell Faulkner Aitken
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Digger
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placeofburial
Porirua Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand
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Group Captain Russell Faulkner ...... a during the Second World War.
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Russell Faulkner Aitken
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Digger
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