Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC* was a British air ace. He scored 20 enemy aircraft confirmed destroyed, six probable and nine damaged with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Drake flew Hawker Hurricanes, Supermarine Spitfires and Curtiss P-40s, with squadrons based in France, England, West Africa, North Africa and Malta. He was the top-scoring RAF P-40 pilot and the second-highest-scoring British Commonwealth P-40 pilot, behind Clive Caldwell. Drake was born in London, to an Australian mother and a British father. He was educated in Switzerland. [More at Wikipedia]

December 20th, 1917 in London  /  Died:   Aug 28th, 2011