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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

proponents of the Big Wing tactic, most notably Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Douglas Bader, which along with the inadaquecies of RAF's nighttime defence during...

Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ˈbeɪdər ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/ BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who...

Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Acting Squadron Leader Douglas Bader. In essence, the tactic involved meeting incoming Luftwaffe bombing...

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...

American actor Douglas Bader (1910–1982), British fighter pilot and amputee Édouard Bader (1899–1983), French rugby union player Ernest Bader (1890–1982)...

Escuadrilla de Alta Acrobacia Halcones ("Hawks High Aerobatics Squad"), known simply as the 'Hawks' (Halcones), is an active group of nine officers of...

Helios James Saito – Taro Tony Shalhoub – the Emir Charles Shaughnessy – Douglas Bader Ric Young – Hiroshi A number of voice actors for the show were starring...

Douglas Bader, the legless fighter ace, commanded the Tangmere wing of Fighter Command. Today he is commemorated by a plaque outside the former Bader...

offensive stance led to various experiments with formations. The flying ace Douglas Bader was the first RAF pilot to try the formation, in May 1941. After some...

The Dam Busters. After reading The Dam Busters, Battle of Britain ace Douglas Bader approached Brickhill in 1951 about collaborating on his biography. Brickhill...

the WW2 RAF fighter pilot Douglas Bader in 1982, Johnson, Denis Crowley-Milling and Sir Hugh Dundas set up the Douglas Bader Foundation, to continue supporting...

Ralph Thomas. Instead, More played the Royal Air Force fighter ace, Douglas Bader, in Reach for the Sky (1956), a part refused by Richard Burton. It was...

was later adapted into the film; and went on to chronicle the life of Douglas Bader in Reach for the Sky and the efforts of 617 "Dam Busters" Squadron....

Squadron" – and (secondly) for being the first squadron to be commanded by Douglas Bader. No. 242 Squadron was formed on 15 August 1918 from the numbers 408...

Air Force) (Trinidad and Tobago Air Guard) (Air Force of Zimbabwe) Douglas Bader – World War II fighter pilot and double amputee, was the first commander...

others, Guy Gibson of 617 Squadron, who led 'The Dambusters', flying ace Douglas Bader, and Adrian Warburton, famous for his role in the defence of Malta....

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)...

uses her feet for all activities of daily living. She appeared with Douglas Bader in the documentary film Two of a Kind in 1971, which contrasted his...

author Douglas Applegate (1928–2021), American politician Douglas Bader, British flying ace Douglas Baker (disambiguation), several people Douglas Barr...

operated the Hawker Hurricane. A notable Coltishall fighter pilot was Douglas Bader, appointed as leader of No. 242 Squadron, a mainly Canadian Hurricane...

1st US Army. Among the more notable inmates were British fighter ace Douglas Bader; Pat Reid, the man who brought Colditz to public attention with his...

he led the RAF Synchronised Aerobatics Display Team, which included Douglas Bader at the 1931 Hendon Air Show, and other displays. He held posts at RAF...

the original site was left in 1983. The Douglas Bader Unit (named after double-amputee RAF pilot Sir Douglas Bader), an established international centre...