Sgt DTE Reid
Named in the book
- Rank
- Sgt
- Squadron
- No 19 Squadron
- Fate
- Killed in action
- In the book
- Pages 77
From the book
More than a “Few” South Africans
The “Channel Dash” involved German battle cruisers “Scharnhorst”, “Gneisenau” and “Prinz Eugen’” while the RAF’s futile efforts to locate the trio during a counterplan named “Operation Fuller” created a lot of negative publicity, the public were unaware the unsuccessful counterplan cost the lives of 82 RAF airmen. Two of whom, 27-year-old No 1 Squadron Hurricane pilot Flight Sgt EFG Blair 10 and 21-year-old Sgt DTE Reid a No 19 Squadron Spitfire pilot were from South Africa’s Eastern Cape.