Walpole - Swift Justice

Dedicated to
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Copyright Nigel Walpole, 2004
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Pen and Sword Aviation 2004
First published by Astonbridge Publishing in 2000
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I n pursuit of Swift justice my special thanks go to Dr. Alan Curry, who is devoted to Swift heritage and has donated or reproduced most of the photographs, also to David Baron and John Gale who have been so helpful with the written word. I am, of course, most grateful to Sir Peter Terry for his Foreword. I apologise to those who offered inputs but do not get special mention in the text; I hope that I have included them all in the list below.

For providing or directing me to a wealth of primary and secondary evidence I thank the staff of the following establishments: the Public Records Office; MOD Air Historical Branch; DPR (RAF); IFS (RAF); RAF Museum; Fleet Air Arm Museum; Tangmere Aviation Museum; Southampton Hall of Aviation; Newark Air Museum; Old Flying Machine Company; Jet Heritage; Militaire Luchtvaart Museum; German Embassy; Gemeinschaft der Jagdflieger; Czech MOD; Jet Heritage; Vickers Ltd (Millbank); British Aerospace Plc; Martin-Baker Ltd; Vinten Ltd; Boulton Paul Association; No. 56 Squadron; No. 4 Squadron; No. 2 Squadron and the Joint School of Photography.

However, justice could not have been served fully without personal testimony and help from the following individuals and it is to them also that I express my sincere appreciation: Brigadegeneral Hermann Adam; Colonel General Andrejew; Trevor Atkins; Pete Adair; Dr Norman Barfield; Barrie Bryant; Jean Blaizot; Sandy Burns; Alan Biltcliffe; Generalleutnant Berger; Tony Buttler; AVM Birdie Bird-Wilson; Alec Brew; Bob Broad; Ray Bannard; Danny Brooks; Generalleutnant Klaus Jurgen Baarz; Air Cdre Bob Barcilon; Charles Burnet; Chris Carter; Peter Collins; Chris Christie; John Crowley; Lou Cockerill; Phil Crawshaw; Les Colquhoun; Derek Collier-Webb; Joe Dalley; Fred Daley; Air Cdre John Davis; Robin Davies; Handel Davies; Air Cdre John Ellacombe; Ken Ellis; Graham Elliott; Fergy Ferguson; Chris Golds; Peter Green; Rodney Giesler; John Gledhill; Jock Graham; Stan Goddard; Derek Gathercole; Keith Garrett; Keith Grumbley; Ben Gunn; Jock Heron; AVM David Hills; Dennis Higton; Brian Holdaway; Oldrich Horak; Dave Holland; Phil Holden-Rushworth; Eric Hayward; Ray Hanna; Mark Hanna; Klaus Heinig; John Hobbs; Del Holyland; Hugh Harrison; David Humphries; John Hutchinson; Alex Henshaw; David Jenkins; Fred Jaques; Terry Kingsley; Air Cdre Pat King; Eleanor Lockyer; Brian Luffingham; Danny Lavender; Alfred Lehmann; Dorrie Lithgow; Geoffrey Lee; AVM Tony Mason; Gordon Mitchell; Dave Moffat; Mac MacDonald; John Munro; David Morgan; David Mayles; Mac McCaig; Rudolf Mller; Mac McCallum; Gordon Monger; Air Cdre John Nevill; Al Newing; David Oxlee; Hans Onderwater; James Orr; Gert Overhoff; Norman Penney; Stan Peachey; Andy Pooley; Mike Pomikowski; Roger Pyrah; Bob Petch; Christian Reimers; Roy and Christa Rimington; Tony Radnor; Clive Richards; Tai Retief; Alan Rowson; George Revell; Eric Snowdon; Twinkle Storey; Dusan Schneider; Eric Smith; Rudy Shulte-Sasse; Tom Seaton; Eric Sharp; John Sawyer; Mike Salisbury; Duncan Simpson; Bob Skirving; Bunny St Aubyn; Geoff Tollett; John Turner; Gerry Tyack; Air Cdre Peter Thorne; Tony Tizzard; Don Upward; Bill van Leeuwen; Air Cdre Bob Weighill; Ian Waller; Denis Webb; Horst Wilhelms; ACM Sir Sandy Wilson; Chris Wilmot; John West; Oscar Wild; Derek Wellings; Tony Winship; Lionel Whettleton; AM Sir John Walker and Brian Wallis.

I am particularly indebted to the Ministry of Defence DPR and Crown Copyright branches for allowing the use of the Air Ministry photographs and those taken by on-board F.95 cameras, to Vickers for supplying many of those derived from Supermarine and, of course, to the others named against their specific contributions. I regret that some sources remain unknown and apologise if some are incorrect.