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Peter Vaughan-Fowler Peter Vaughan-Fowler, CVO, DSO, DFC with bar, AFC (18 January 1923 – 24 April 1994) was an officer who served in the Royal Air Force. He is best known for his work as a "special duties" pilot, supporting the SOE and the SIS, carrying agents to and from occupied France. Early life Vaughan-Fowler was born in Lahore, in what was then India on 18 January 1923. He came from a family of aviators. 1 His father, Guy Vaughan-Fowler, had been a naval aviator during The Great War, attaining the rank of Group Captain. 2 He had taken Peter up in an Avro 504 biplane for his first flight when he was still a young boy. 3 Peter's older brother had also been a pilot. On the outbreak of the Second World War he was a 17 year old still at school at the Imperial Service College. 3 A year later he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve at Cranwell, where he earned the rating of Leading Aircraftman. 4 While there he volunteered for pilot training...

Jack Currie John Anthony Logan "Jack" Currie , DFC (7 December 1921 – 19 October 1996) was an officer in the Royal Air Force and author. After serving during the war he stayed on in the RAF, eventually reaching the rank of squadron leader. After he left the service he wrote a number of books on the RAF, three of which described his own experiences as a bomber pilot. His books portray life as it was in the RAF's Bomber Command during the course of the Second World War. Currie served as narrator in three BBC documentaries on the air war over Europe. Early life Currie was born in Sheffield, the son of John Alban William Currie and Margaret Ulph Ward-Smith. While still a young child the family moved to Harrow, London. Currie was taken to air shows, where he became fascinated with aeroplanes. 1 After leaving school he worked a variety of jobs, including cartoonist for the Harrow Observer. On occasion his cartoons were featured on the pages of national publication...