Lt WA Gale “Shorty”
1943 secondees killed
- Rank
- Lt
- Squadron
- No 245 Squadron
- 1943 voyage
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Sailed from Cape Town on the Rangitata in September 1943, and signed the group photograph taken in Montevideo on the way.
The story of the photograph
- Fate
- Killed in action, 17 August 1944
From the book
The Airmen who started at Sea
Hay, Jennings, Kaufmann and seconded SAAF Typhoon pilot Lt WA “Shorty” Gale who lost his life on August 17th having joined No 245 Squadron on the 8th, were killed during a three month period between D-Day and August 31st which, on the basis of information extracted from Volume 3 of Norman LR Franks “Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War”, cost the lives of 139 Typhoon pilots and 222 aircraft. Lt Pat Clulow also joined No 245 Squadron on the 8th was shot down on the 18th, evaded capture and resumed operational flying in March 1945.