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Jacques Remlinger was one of the two pilots of the group of hunting 602 City of Glasgow, with the New Zealander Bruce Oliver, who, on July 17, 1944, mitrailllèrent the car of the marshal Erwin Rommel close to Holy-Foy in Normandy, killing the driver and a motorcyclist of the escort, wounding seriously the marshal Rommel (it will die on October 14, 1944 in circumstances not completely éclaicies - continuation with its wounds or constrained with the suicide? -), and more slightly its aide-de-camp, major Lang. A few days later, Jacques Remlinger will be decorated with Distinguished Flying Cross, but it is only in 1990 that it will learn the reason from it, with the opening of the files of the RAF
It fails however to mention anything at all about the "private club" exclusiveness that protected, and was very much a part of, the organization of this R.A.F. City Of Glasgow squadron. Unless one could provide credentials of some sort to prove one's "private-club" quality, one just wasn't going to learn to fly with the pre-WWII, 602 Squadron.
F/L Archie Ashmore McKellar of No 605 Hurricane Squadron from Paisley, Scotland was a plasterer in his fathers business before he joined the A.A.F. in 1938. He was short in stature being only 5ft 3ins. He shared in the shooting down of the first Heinkel bomber to perish over Britain. McKellar shot down at least 3 Heinkels on the 15th of August 1940 and on the 9th of September scored four more kills. On the the 11th of September 1940 he took over command of No 605 Hurricane Squadron from Squadron Leader Walter Churchill. Another four were shot down by McKellar on the 15th of September 1940. He was awarded the D.F.C. and Bar also the D.S.O. On the 7th of October his score rose another five kills, all Bf 109's. McKellar shot down 21 enemy aircraft before his death on the 1st of November 1940 when he was in combat with Bf 109's over Kent. His Hurricane I (V6879) crashed at the side of Woodlands Manor near Addisham at 18:20hrs. A.A.McKellar is buried at New Eastwood, Glasgow.
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