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By the Skin of my Teeth: The Memoirs of an RAF Mustang Pilot in World War II and of Flying Sabres with USAF in Korea

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by Colin Downes


  Indo-Pakistan war

  instrument panel, ‘Basic Six’

  Ipswich hospital

  Ireland

  Irian Jaya

  Israel

  Israeli Air Force

  Israelis

  Itami, Japan

  Itazuke air base, Japan

  Iwakuni air base, Japan

  Iwerne Minster, Dorset

  ‘The Talbot Arms’ pub

  Jabara, Major James

  Jack the Ripper

  Japan

  occupation of

  Jerusalem

  Church of the Holy Sepulchre

  Dome of the Rock

  jet aircraft, flying

  John, Augustus

  Johnson, Colonel James

  Johnson, AVM Johnnie

  Johnson, Dr

  Jordan, River

  Joyce, James

  Jurakowski, Jan

  kamikaze aircraft

  Kao-hsiung

  Kawasaki

  Kennet, River

  kerosene, aviation

  Kerr, Deborah

  Khyber Pass

  ‘kills’, definition

  ‘Kimpo Blues, The’

  Kimpo City, Korea

  Kimpo International Airport

  King, Evelyn

  King, Flight Lieutenant John

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Korea

  children and orphange

  Korean War

  conditions in

  escape and evasion kits

  front line

  ‘The Hook’

  K-3 Pohang air base

  K-14 Kimpo air base

  K-15 Suwon air base

  kill-to-loss ratio

  ‘Mig Alley’

  Kuala Lumpur

  Kum Sok No, Lieutenant

  Kyushu

  Labour Party

  Laos

  Las Vegas

  Lee, Ruper

  Leeuwarden air base

  Leigh, Vivien

  Leigh-Mallory, AVM (later ACM) Sir Trafford

  Lemay, General Curtis

  lifeboat, airborne

  Lifeboat, Airborne, Mk 1A

  lightning strikes

  Lisbon

  Lista Peninsula

  Liverpool

  Lockheed

  F-80 Shooting Star

  F-94 Starfire

  F-104 Starfighter

  P-80 Shooting Star

  RF-80

  T-33

  London

  Abbey Lodge

  Avenue Road

  Cricklewood

  defences

  fog

  Golders Green

  Hampstead

  Hampstead Heath

  ‘Jack Straw’s Castle’

  ‘Ye Olde Bull and Bush’ inn

  Lord’s cricket ground

  Paddington Station

  St John’s Wood

  victory fly-past

  Whitechapel

  London Heathrow airport

  Longueville

  Loos, Battle of

  Los Angeles

  Louis Pasteur

  Lucas, Tom

  Luftwaffe

  ‘Ace of Spades’ staffel

  Debelsdorf base

  Dulag Luft III

  Luther, Martin

  Luxor

  Lynch, Benny

  Mac Robert, Alisdair

  Mac Robert, Iain

  Mac Robert, Roderick

  Mac Robert of Dounside, Sir Alexander

  Mac Robert of Dounside, Lady

  Mac Robert Trust

  MacDonald, Flight Lieutenant

  Mach, Dr Ernst

  Mackay, Stuart

  MacLachlan, Squadron Leader James, DSO DFC

  Magee, John Gillespie

  Maginot Line

  Malan, ‘Sailor’

  Malaya

  Malta

  Mandalay

  Manchester

  Heaton Park

  Midland Hotel

  Manchuria

  Manhattan

  Mao Tse-tung

  Marshall’s Flying Training School

  Martin, James

  Martin B-57

  Martin Baker Aircraft

  ejection seat

  Marx, Karl

  Marylebone Cricket Club

  Masada

  Mason-Dixon Line

  Maxim’s

  McCaffery, Don

  McConnell, Captain Joseph

  McCrae, Lieutenant Colonel John, RAMC

  McDonnell F-101 Voodoo

  McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom

  McElroy, Lieutenant Colonel

  McIndoe, Archibald (later Sir Archibald)

  Meadows, Squadron Leader Jack, DFC AFC RAuxAF

  Mekong River

  Melbury Abbas, Dorset

  Melun airfield

  Menai Strait

  ‘Menin Road, The’

  Menuhin, Yehudi

  Messerschmitt

  Bf

  Bf 109G

  Bf

  Me

  Metropolitan Police College, Hendon, museum

  Metrovick Beryl jet engine

  Miami

  Mikoyan-Gurevich

  MiG-15

  MiG-15 SP1

  MiG-17

  MiG-17 PF

  Miles, Blossom

  Miles, Fred

  Miles, George

  Miles Aircraft Company

  M-52

  Magister

  Marathon

  Master

  Master Mk II

  Miller, Squadron Leader John ‘Dusty’, DFC AFC

  Mills, ACM Sir George

  Ministry of Supply

  Miramshah air base

  Mitla Pass

  Mitsubishi Zero

  Monastery of St. Katherina

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Montargis gliding club

  Montgomery, General (later Field Marshal Viscount)

  Moore, Captain Lonnie

  Morant, Roy

  Moslems

  Mukden

  Munich

  Murphy, Sergeant (later Warrant Officer) ‘Spud’, DFM

  Mutual Defence Aid Programme

  Nagasaki

  Nagoya

  Namsi-dong

  Nash, Paul

  NATO Air Firing Competition

  NATO Atomic Strike Plan

  navigational flying

  Nelson, Byron

  Nepalese Royal Flight

  New Guinea

  New York

  Newall, ACM Sir Cyril

  Newcastle-upon Tyne

  Newendorp, Major Willie

  Nicholson, Flight Lieutenant, VC

  ‘Night Patrol’

  Nine Lives

  Niven, David

  Norfolk coast, north

  North American Aircraft

  F-86 Sabre

  F-86A Sabre

  F-86D Sabre

  F-86E Sabre

  F-86F Sabre

  F-100 Super Sabre

  Harvard (AT-6)

  Mustang(P-51B)

  Mustang(P-51C)

  Mustang(P-51D)

  collision and forced landing

  Mustang(P-51F)

  P-51 Mustang

  Allison engined

  Merlin engined

  ‘pee’ funnel

  wings

  P-51D Mustang

  P-82 Twin Mustang

  RF-86 Sabre

  North American/CAC F-86 Sabre

  North Korea see also Korea; Korean War

  North Korean POWs

  North Sea

  Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter

  Norway

  Novak, Kim

  nuclear threat

  Nuremberg raid

  OAS

  Oberammergau

  Oboe navigation system

  Ocean, HMS

  Officer Training Corps (OTC)

  Okeechobee, Lake

  Okinawa

  Okinawa, Battle of

  ‘On
Wings of Morning’

  O’Neil, Mr (US instructor)

  operations

  ‘Focus’

  ‘Musketeer’

  ‘Olympic’

  ‘Red Sheet’

  ‘Sealion’

  ‘Thunderclap’

  Osaka

  ‘Our Mutual Friend’

  Oxford

  Oxford University Air Squadron

  Paengnyong-do Island

  Pakistan

  Pakistan Air Force

  Palm Beach, Florida

  Panavia Tornado

  Panmunjon

  Park, AVM (later Air Marshal) Keith

  Parr, Captain Ralph

  Passchendaele Ridge

  Pearson, Flight Lieutenant Graham, DFC

  Peasants’ Revolt

  Penang

  Percival Pembroke

  Percival Proctor

  Peshawar

  Peterhead

  Petter, William

  Pike, AVM Thomas (later Sir Thomas), DFC

  Pirates of Penzance, The

  Pitt-Brown, Wing Commander ‘PB’, DFC

  Ploesti oilfields raids

  Poelcapelle

  poets, war

  Polikarpov Po-2

  Polish cavalry

  Polish pilots

  Post Exchange (PX)

  Potsdam Conference

  Potsdam Proclamation

  Pound, Ezra

  POW camp, Polish

  Proudlove, Squadron Leader David, RAuxAF

  Proust, Marcel

  Pyongyang

  Pyongyang Radio

  Pyongyang Rose

  Rangoon

  Rankin, Group Captain Jamie, DSO DFC

  Red Sea

  Republic F-84

  Republic FR-84

  Republic JB-2 ‘Loon’

  ‘Requiem for a Rear Gunner’

  Rhubarbs

  Richey, Wing Commander Paul, DFC

  Ridgeway

  Rolls Royce

  Avon Seriesjet engine

  Nene jet engine

  Derwent jet engine

  Roosevelt, President Franklin.

  Rose, Tommy

  Royal Air Force

  2nd ATAF

  2nd Tactical Air Force

  4th ATAF

  Air-Sea Rescue course

  Air-Sea Rescue Service

  Army Cooperation Command

  aviation medicine establishment

  Bomber Command

  criticism

  loss rate

  Central Fighter Establishment

  Air Fighting Development Squadron

  All Weather Development Squadron

  All Weather Fighter Leader Squadron

  Day Fighter Leader School

  Day Fighter Leader Squadron

  Fighter Combat Wing

  Instrument Rating and Examination Squadron

  Central Flying School

  Coastal Command

  Disciplinary Centre, Brighton

  Duxford Wing

  Far East Command

  Fighter Command

  fighter sweeps

  Flying College, Manby

  Flying Training Command

  High Speed Flight

  hospital, Wroughton

  Middle East Command

  No.Flying Training School

  No.Group

  HQ

  No.Group

  No.Wing

  Official Records Office

  Special Burns Unit

  Special Investigation Branch

  squadrons

  No.

  No.

  No.

  No.

  No.‘Fighting Cocks’

  No.

  No.

  No.‘East India’

  No.

  No.

  No.

  No.

  No.‘Bombay’

  No.

  No.

  No.

  stations and airfields

  Abingdon

  Acklington

  Akrotiri

  Andrews Field

  Banff

  Bentwaters

  Biggin Hill

  Boulmer

  Bovingdon

  Calshot

  Changi

  Chivenor

  Church Fenton

  Croughton

  Dallachy

  Duxford

  Elvington

  Eshott

  Fairwood Common

  Hendon

  Hethel

  Hornchurch

  Horsham St Faith

  Leiston

  Linton-on-Ouse

  Manby

  Marham

  Matlaske

  Middleton St George

  North Weald

  Northolt

  Oakington

  Pershore

  Peterhead

  Shellingford

  Stanton Harcourt

  Tangmere

  see also Tangmere Military

  Aviation Museum

  Tern Hill

  Theale

  Valley

  Wattisham

  West Raynham

  Woodbridge

  Woodley

  Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

  Royal Air Force Volunteer Rexerve

  Royal Air Force Yacht Club

  Royal Aircraft Factory RE.8

  Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5

  Royal Australian Air Force

  Butterworth air base

  No.Squadron

  Royal Auxiliary Air Force

  No.Squadron

  No.‘City of London’ Squadron

  No.‘County of London’ Squadron

  No.‘County of Middlesex’ Squadron

  No.‘County of Surrey’ Squadron

  No.Squadron

  Royal Beaumaris Yacht Club

  Royal Canadian Air Force

  Royal London Yacht Club

  Royal Navy

  Royal Nepal Airline

  Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern

  Royal Yacht Squadron

  Rules of Engagement

  Sadat, President

  Saigon

  sailing

  St Cyr graduates

  St Petersburg, Florida

  Salan, General Raoul

  Samois-sur-Seine

  San Francisco

  Monterey, Cannery Row

  Pebble Beach golf course

  Sausilito

  Sasebo, Japan

  Saumur cavalry school

  Saunders-Roe flying-boat fighter

  Sawyer, Tom

  Schwarzkopf, Elizabeth

  Schweinfurt ball-bearing factory raids

  Selassie, Emperor Haile

  Seminole Indians

  Semley, Dorset

  Seoul

  5th Air Force club

  8th Army club

  The Chosen hotel

  Yongdunpo suburb

  Sessions, Reggie

  Shakuhachi Pass

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Sheriff, Flight Lieutenant Alan

  shipping strikes

  Shore, Dinah

  Shoreham airport

  Short Stirling

  Short Sunderland

  Simms, Edward

  Simpson, John

  Sinai Desert

  Sinai Massif

  Sinanju

  Sinclair, Sir Archibald

  Singapore

  Sinuiju

  Six Day War

  Skagerrak

  skiing

  Skirfare, River

  Slingsby sailplane

  Smith, C. Aubrey

  snakes

  Solent

  Somme Offensive

  ‘sound barrier’

  South African Air Force, No. Squadron

  South Coast Flying Club

  South Koreasee also Korea; Korean War

  South Korean ROK Army, 2nd Corps

  Soviet Air Force

  Soviet forces

  Spain


  Speidel, General Hans

  ‘Spring in Korea’

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stearman PT-17

  Stewart, Squadron Leader Ian

  Stewart, Jimmy

  Stirling, David

  Story of Air Fighting, The

  Strachan, Squadron Leader Ian

  Strathbeg, Loch

  Straw, Jack

  Student, General

  Suez Canal

  Suez Crisis

  Suiho Dam

  Supermarine

  Sea Otter

  Seafire

  Spiteful

  Spitfire

  armament

  camera dog-fighting

  dive-bombing

  Griffon engined

  gunsight

  Merlin engined

  wings

  Spitfire II

  Spitfire V

  Spitfire IX

  Spitfire XIV

  Spitfire XVI

  Spitfire XXI

  Spitfire XXII

  Walrus

  Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)

  Sutherland, Wing Commander Max, DFC

  Sweden

  Swedish Red Sea Diving School

  Syngman Rhee, President

  Tachikowa AFB, Japan

  Taedong River

  Taipei

  Taiwan

  Taj Mahal

  Tan Son Nhut air base

  Tangmere Military Aviation Museum see also Royal Air Force stations: Tangmere

  tanks, early

  Tassa Pass

  Tate, Harry

  Tee Emm

  Tel Aviv

  ‘Ten Little Fighter Boys’

  Test Pilot

  Tet offensive

  Thomas H. Barry

  Thompson, Flight Lieutenant, DFC RCAF

  Tiger Force

  Tilden, Bill

  Toksan dam

  Tokyo

  British Embassy

  Topp, Squadron Leader Roger, AFC

  tropopause, flying in

  Truman, President

  Trumper, Mr

  Tsuiki air base, Japan

  Tuan-Tien air base

  Tupolev Tu-16 ‘Badger’

  Turkish Brigade

  Ugie, River

  Ulysses

  United Nations

  United States

  United States Air Force

  4th Fighter Interceptor Group (FIG)

  4th Fighter Interceptor Wing (FIW)

  5th Air Force

  51st Fighter Interceptor Group

  67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing (TRW)

  334th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS)

  335th Fighter Interceptor Squadron

  doctor

  336th Fighter Interceptor Squadron

  Air Defence Command

  Nellis AFB, Nevada

  Tactical Weapons School

  United States Army

  2nd Division

  12th Army Group

  Atomic Weapons School

  United States Army Air Corps

  United States Army Air Force

  8th Air Force

  363rd Fighter Squadron/357th Fighter Group

  loss rate

 

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