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Cranston Fine Arts  Aviation Art World War Two Veteran Signatures UK and Commonwealth R  Rosser, Tom |
[UP] - Raby, Ray - Rae, Jack - Ratcliff, Len - Rawlinson, Alan - Rees, Ken - Rees, W - Reid, Bill - Rice, Geoff - Richards, Lloyd - Riddle, Christopher - Riding, Harold - Rigby, Herbert - Roberts, David - Roberts, Ralph - Robertson, Douglas - Robertson, Sir Ian - Robillard, Larry - Roddis, Harold - Roddis, Joe - Rodger, Dave - Rodley, Ernest - Rogers, Ken - Rolland, John - Rollins, John - Roscoe, Arthur - Rose, Jack - Rose, Stuart - Ross, Don - Ross, Nicky - Rosser, Leslie - Rosser, Tom - Rothwell, Peter - Rowland, John - Russel, Blair - Russell, Anthony - Rutter, Norman - Rutter, Peter - Ryll, Stefan |
Squadron Leader Tom N. Rosser OBE DFC
Squadron Leader Tom N. Rosser OBE DFC volunteered for pilot training early in 1940. After training in England he was commissioned and flew with Spitfire and Hurricane squadrons in England and Bengal from August 1941 until December 1942, when he joined No 3 PRU (later redesignated 681 Squadron) in Calcutta for photographic reconnaissance operations in Japanes-occupied Burma, Thailand, and the Andaman Islands. (At that time the squadron was equipped with converted Hurricanes and North American B52s, and three PR Spitfires, the only Spitfires of any kind in India. A year or so later it had a full complement of Spitfire Mk XIs and 684 Squadron, equipped with Mosquitoes, had been formed). After his operational tour ended in July 1944, he commanded the PR training Flight in 74 OTU in Palestine until VE Day when the OTU was disbanded. He later formed and led a temporary squadron of Spitfire fighter/bombers based in Egypt for internal security duties in the Middle East. He was demobilised in late 1946 after administrative appointments in Air HQ Egypt, and at Cranwell. He died in November 2020.
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| Squadron Leader Tom N. Rosser OBE DFC - Signed Aviation Art |
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Mission Accomplished by Philip West. 17th May 1943, Sqn Ldr Frank (Jerry) Fray in his Spitfire PRX1 of 542 Squadron operating out of RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, returned alone and unarmed to gather photographic evidence from 30,000 feet of the Möhne dam having been breached earlier the same day by 617 Squadron Lancaster bombers. |
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