1. What was the name of the World War 2 pilot who lost both of his legs?

Answer 1

Everyone has said the exactly the same. Douglas Robert Steuart Bader (pronounced Bah-der). I am sure that this is the man you are thinking of and would agree totally in what everyone else says. but there was another Legless pilot who flew with the RAF during the second world war called Colin Hodgkinson, usually referred to as "Hoppy"

He lost his legs in a flying accident whilst training with the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. At the time, acconipanied by his instructor, Hodgkinson was practicing blind flying on instruments with a hood over his head. The Tiger crashed from 800ft at Gravesend, killing the instructor and so badly injuring him that his legs were amputated. During a long period in hospital he encountered Sir Archibald McIndoe who invited him to his RAF plastic surgery unit at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, for some work on his face.

Althoughin the navy, Hodgkinson was welcomed into Mclndoe's Guinea Pig Club brotherhood of burned airmen. Such was his spirit that he determined to emulate Bader and to fly again. By the autumn of 1942 he had wheedled his way out of the Navy and into the RAF as a pilot officer.

He was briefly with No.131, a Spitfire squadron before moving on in the new year, successively to 610 and 510 squadrons. He learned his trade by flying sweeps over occupied France. The following March he was promoted Flying officer and in June joined 611, then in the famous Biggin Hill wing. In August Hodgkinson returned to 501 as a flight commander.

In November, during a high altitude weather reconnaissance his oxygen supply failed, and he crashed into a French field. Badly injured and minus one of his tin legs he was rescued from the blazing Spitfire by two farm workers. He spent ten months in a P.O.W. camp before being repatriated.

Although he was released from the service in 1946 Hodgkinson returned in 1949 as a weekend flyer. He became a jet pilot and flew Vampires with 501 and 604 squadrons of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force until the early 1950s. Shortly after this he wrote the book of his story called "Best Foot Forward"

As for Douglas (Later Sir Douglas) Bader. Born 1910 and joined up via Cranwell RAF College.
Made a name for himself as a rugby football player and daring pilot taking part in displays at Hendon where he and another pilot flew aircraft that were CHAINED to the leaders aircraft from take off to landing.
On Monday, December 14, 1931 whilst making a visit to a friend at a flying club he was asked to give a low level display and, mindful of several recent warnings from his C.O. said that he had better not. As he walked away a civilian made a crack about "show offs only performing for the big crowds"
Douglas took his Bristol Bulldog low over the field and commenced a slow roll. He misjudged his height, clipped a wing on the ground and cartwheeled across the field. After being rushed to hospital both his legs were amputated The right above the knee and the left below.
Invalided out of the RAF he took a job with Shell and immediately after the outbreak of World War 2 started to badger the RAF into letting him back in. With some string pulling by old friends he was accepted and sent for a flying course.
An example of Douglas` temperament was that on his first solo flight since his crash he promptly turned his Miles Master trainer upside whilst flying in the circuit. This was spotted by a senior flight instructor who sought out one of Bader`s friends who was also his instructor and said "I know who it was. Just tell him not to break all the rules in his first week".
He rapidly worked his way up through the ranks until he was given command of 242 squadron after their return from France. When Bader first arrived at the squadron's headquarters at Coltishall airfield, most of the squadron's pilots were sceptical of their new legless squadron leader, who, they thought, would lead them from his desk. Bader quickly dispelled the idea by taking one of 242's Hurricane fighters and performing acrobatics over Coltishall for a half hour. He then gave them a demonstration of what could best be called his forceful personality in the briefing room when they did not quite show the respect he felt he deserved.
During the Battle of Britain he expounded his "Big Wing" theory whilst leading 242 and ended up in charge of 5 squadrons flyign from duxford.
Moving in to 1941 he was promoted to Wing Commander and given the Tangmere wing as his own. Whilst leading them over France in August 1941 he was bought down by either a colision with an Me109 or (as later documentary evidence possibly shows) was mistakenly shot down by one of his own wing. He was captured by the Germans and imprisoned. He was eventually sent to Colditz due to his rather annoying (to the Germans) habit of "Goon-baiting)
After the war he left the RAF and returned to Shell as an executive with his own plane but also spent a lot of time raising money for and helping disabled people to live full lives.
In 1976 he was knighted by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second for Services to the Disabled. He claimed this as "the greatest honour of my life"
Douglas worked hard for the disabled until 1982 when he suffered a heart attack in August and, after speaking at a dinner for "Bomber" Harris he suffered a second, fatal, attack.

May the memories of these two men and their comrades never dim.

Ray.

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Douglas Bader

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Douglas Bader

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Douglas Bader

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Sir Douglas Robert Stuart Bader

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Douglas Bader

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Douglas Bader

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Douglas Bader.

Answer 9

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British- Douglas Bader.

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Douglas bader