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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1784189" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10710421_690345714428557_406499702278874368_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Flying Officer Leonard Haines of No. 19 Squadron RAF sits by the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia (QV-?) at Fowlmere, near Duxford. September 1940. Leonard Archibald Haines, from Melcombe Regis in Dorset, joined the RAF on a short service commission in September 1937. He was with 19 Squadron at Duxford in early 1940. Over Dunkirk on 1st June he destroyed a Me109 and on a later patrol damaged a He111. On 19th August Haines shared a Me110, on 3rd September he destroyed a Me110, on the 5th a Me109, on the 11th a Me110, on the 15th two Me109's and a Me110 and on the 18th he shared a Ju88 and probably destroyed a Me109. He was awarded the DFC during (gazetted 8th October 1940).(<a href="http://www.bbm.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.bbm.org.uk/</a>)At the time, replacement pilots were put in the hands of more experienced pilots to, "...give them a sporting chance". David Cox, a sergeant pilot with 19 Squadron, was taken under the wing of Fl. Off. Haines. Sgt. Cox said later, "I can give credit to him for the fact that I stayed alive as long as I did. He used to say, just keep my tail wheel in front of you and stick to me. Don't worry about shooting things. If you can follow me, you'll learn to throw a Spitfire about, which is what I did". (<a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oldwinburnians.org.uk%2F&h=uAQHhhBzg&enc=AZMvY_exE_DMz0N1elWEBoA33ststNK2XgQRoPREL2lrbqHokjWG-JSVOhCJxb3o-4cbvrB1KX5jhQQ1F2DmK8xWTq8qhhuqo_yZOVGSCavQPvr57AxyzoU95kdlqb8iUPxgAZy-AjlkTD-LpIc5mrVe&s=1" target="_blank">http://www.oldwinburnians.org.uk/</a>)Haines shared a Me109 on 5th November, shared a Me110 on the 15th and destroyed a Me109 on the 28th. He was posted away in late 1940 to be an instructor at 53 OTU at RAF Heston and was killed in a flying accident on 30th April 1941 whilst flying a Miles Master T8771 which spun into the ground at Hounslow Barracks, Middlesex. Cpl. Thomas F.G. Press, his passenger, was also killed. At the time of his death, Len was an Acting Flt.Lt. aged 21 and Corporal Press was 36. They are interred in the Heston and Isleworth (Hounslow) Cemetery. Middlesex.</blockquote>

Verificación: Libertador de Argentina