Birth Date: 1919
Born:
Son of Hugh and Avis Nettleton; nephew of Mrs. W. Nettleton, of Biddenden, Kent, England
Home: Calgary, Alberta
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RAF
Unit
263 Sqn- Squadron
Base
Rank
Pilot Officer
Position
Pilot Officer
Service Numbers
33483
Prev: 40483
Calgary, Alberta
263 Squadron (Ex Ungue Leonem). Two Gladiator II aircraft in a mid-air collision and crash near Alveston, England, killing both pilots
Pilot Officer PJM Nettleton (RAF)(Can), was flying Gladiator N 5690 and Pilot Officer DED Milsom (RAF), was flying Gladiator N 5588
The Gloster Gladiator is a British-built biplane fighter. It was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) (as the Sea Gladiator variant) and was exported to a number of other air forces during the late 1930s.
Developed privately as the Gloster SS.37, it was the RAF's last biplane fighter aircraft, and was rendered obsolete by newer monoplane designs even as it was being introduced. Though often pitted against more formidable foes during the early days of the Second World War, it acquitted itself reasonably well in combat.
The Gladiator saw action in almost all theatres during the Second World War, with a large number of air forces, some of them on the Axis side. The RAF used it in France, Norway, Greece, the defence of Malta, the Middle East, and the brief Anglo-Iraqi War (during which the Royal Iraqi Air Force was similarly equipped). Other countries deploying the Gladiator included China against Japan, beginning in 1938; Finland (along with Swedish volunteers) against the Soviet Union in the Winter War and the Continuation War; Sweden as a neutral noncombatant (although Swedish volunteers fought for Finland against USSR as stated above); and Norway, Belgium, and Greece resisting Axis invasion of their respective lands. Wikipedia
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