http://saafww2pilots.yolasite.com/albie-g%C3%B6tze-log-book.php
When you see he was a Typhoon pilot, you understand how brave this man was.
Source of the picture
https://acesflyinghigh.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/d-day-70th-anniversary/
http://saafww2pilots.yolasite.com/albie-g%C3%B6tze-log-book.php
When you see he was a Typhoon pilot, you understand how brave this man was.
Source of the picture
https://acesflyinghigh.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/d-day-70th-anniversary/
I never knew he had saved Albie’s life before listening to Albie Götze’s story on YouTube.
John rejoigned his fellow pilots last year.
I wrote him a message once, but he never replied. I would have like to meet him and talk about No. 4 E.F.T.S. Windsor Mills. I had written an article on him on this blog.
In fact make that two.
This is an article on Vintage Wings of Canada that pays homage to Johnny Typhoon. Much better than I could have.
Final reblog for today…
I had heard about this pilot before but I did not pay to much attention.
He lives in Canada.
Albie Gotze told me he knew him so I got curious.
I never met him personally nor did I ever meet Albie Gotze.
John Colton has probably a lot of stories about his missions with the Typhoon.
This picture was taken from the IWM site.
A pilot of No. 175 Squadron RAF scrambles to his waiting Hawker Typhoon Mk IB fighter-bomber
at Le Fresne-Camilly in Normandy, 24 July 1944.
John Colton was with No. 137 Squadron RAF and he talks about his war experience on this site.
This is the audio transcript.
It has a lot of information.
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F/L Colton flew Typhoon SF-K, shown on the airfield at Eindhoven, on July 10 and 11, 1944. On Dec. 31, 1944, his friend, Pilot Officer James ‘Paddy’ Shemeld, was killed while flying SF-K after it was hit by flak. P/O Shemeld has no known grave.
Photo Credit: © Imperial War Museum.
John Colton died on May 14th, 2013.
F/L John Colton, age 22.
Photo Credit: Courtesy John Colton.
Flight Lieutenant (retired) John Colton, age 89, from Sherbrooke, Que., is a survivor.
He was only 19 when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in January 1942, and 20 when he received his wings and went overseas for further training. Flying single-seat Hawker Typhoon fighter-bombers with Number 137 Squadron, Royal Air Force, during the Second World War, he carried out 104 operational sorties. It was an extraordinary feat, considering that Typhoon pilots flew an average of only 17 sorties before being shot down or reported as missing.
I had heard about this pilot before but I did not pay too much attention.
He lives in Canada.
Albie Gotze told me he knew him so I got curious.
I never met him personally nor did I ever meet Albie Gotze.
John Colton has probably a lot of stories about his missions with the Typhoon.
This picture was taken from the IWM site.
A pilot of No. 175 Squadron RAF scrambles to his waiting Hawker Typhoon Mk IB fighter-bomber at Le Fresne-Camilly in Normandy, 24 July 1944.
John Colton was with No. 137 Squadron RAF and he talks about his war experience on this Website.
This is the audio transcript.
It has a lot of information.