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22-04-17, 02:39 PM
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ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN MALTA .....
© IWM (ME(RAF) 7589)
 Wing Commander Adrian Warburton when Officer Commanding No. 683 Squadron RAF at Luqa, Malta. Below his decorations (DSO, DFC and 2 bars), on his left breast pocket, Warburton wears "The Order of the Winged Boot", an unofficial award given to airmen who had been shot down and forced to return to their base on foot or by other means. Warburton became one of the most successful and best-known aerial-reconnaissance pilots of the Second World War while flying sorties from Malta and North Africa in 1941-1943. © IWM (ME(RAF) 7579)  Wing Commander M.M. Stephens, when commanding the Hal Far Fighter Wing in Malta. A successful fighter pilot, Stephens shot down 22 enemy aircraft, with another 17 probably destroyed, between May 1940 and June 1943.
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22-04-17, 08:02 PM
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What would be the difference, if any, between The Order of the Winged Boot and The Late Arrivals Club? Is the former just an IWM description?
Rgds, Thomas.
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22-04-17, 09:01 PM
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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