Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, DL, FRAeS (/ˈbɑːdər/; 21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force...
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Reach for the Sky (redirect from Reach for the Sky: The Douglas Bader Story)
He was Douglas Bader! Bader wasn't a technical adviser but I suppose Kenny More modelled himself physically on Bader. More arranged to meet Bader to prepare...
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More as Douglas Bader. Reach for the Sky may also refer to: Reach for the Sky (novel), a 1954 biography by Paul Brickhill about pilot Douglas Bader, the...
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Air Aces (section Episode 2 - Douglas Bader)
Douglas Bader beats all the odds to help turn the tide in the Battle of Britain and become Britain's most celebrated air ace. The part of Douglas Bader...
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brought his tally to 70. On 9 August 1941, RAF ace Douglas Bader bailed out over St Omer, France. Bader was well known to the Luftwaffe and at the time of...
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Spitfire right through his operational career from late 1940 to 1945. Douglas Bader (20 e/a) and "Bob" Tuck (27 e/a) flew Spitfires and Hurricanes during...
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it as their callsign or handle. The most famous of these is probably Douglas Bader, who was an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. Look up dogsbody...
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Sparrow, in Doctor in the House (1954) and Thelma Bader, the wife of the fighter pilot Douglas Bader (played by Kenneth More) in Reach for the Sky (1956)...
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American actor Douglas Bader (1910–1982), British fighter pilot and amputee Édouard Bader (1899–1983), French rugby union player Ernest Bader (1890–1982)...
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Brave and the Bold. Karl Diedrich Bader was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on Christmas Eve, 1966, the son of Gretta Bader (née Margaret Marie Lange; 1931–2014)...
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