Chris Cartledge, who has died aged 100, was a Fleet Air Arm pilot who flew the F4U Corsair – the “Bent-Wing Bastard” – on operations against the Germans and the Japanese in the Second World War; he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross aged 20 and qualified twice as a member of the Goldfish Club, whose members had ditched at sea.
Now 98, Dick Raymond (pictured recently) is among four veterans from the RAF s elite Pathfinders who have been newly-photographed to mark the 80th anniversary of the formation of the unit.
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