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Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II

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Prince George, Duke of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent, was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, and a younger brother of Kings Edward VIII and George VI. He served in the Royal Navy during the 1920s before briefly working as a civil servant, and in 1934 was created Duke of Kent. That same year he married Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, with whom he had three children: Edward, Alexandra and Michael.
Hannah Szenes
Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
British military officer during World Wars I and II (1892–1944)
Billy Fiske
American bobsledder and pilot (1911-1940)
Guy Gibson
first CO of the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron (1918–1944)
Josef František
Czech fighter ace (1914-1940)
Yolande Beekman
French SOE agent (1911–1944)
Arnold Wilson
diplomat (1884-1940)
Romualdas Marcinkus
Lithuanian pilot and footballer (1907-1944)
Lilian Rolfe
Allied secret agent in World War II (1914–1945)
Gordon Cummins
British spree killer (1914–1942)
Marmaduke Pattle
South African born World War II Flying ace for the RAF. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross & bar. (1914–1941)
Cecily Lefort
French resistance member (1900-1945)
Peter Drummond
Royal Air Force air marshal (1894–1945)
Claude Ashton
English footballer (1901-1942)
Willem Jacob van Stockum
Dutch mathematician (1910–1944)
Jean de Selys Longchamps
Belgian fighter pilot (1912–1943)
Diana Rowden
WAAF officer and British SOE agent (1915-1944)
Alexander Obolensky
English rugby union footballer (1916–1940)
George Macaulay
professional English cricketer (1897-1940)
Freddie Tomlins
figure skater (1919–1943)
Mirosław Ferić
Polish flying ace
Eugeniusz Horbaczewski
Polish flying ace
Roger Bushell
RAF officer (1910–1944)
Alois Vašátko
Czechoslovak general and pilot (1908-1942)
René Lunden
bobsledder (1902-1942)
Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth
British racing driver (1909–1940)
Mieczysław Adamek
Polish fighter pilot and officer
Arthur Louis Aaron
British pilot (RAF), recipient of the Victoria Cross (1922-1943)
Caesar Hull
Southern Rhodesian World War II flying ace (1914-1940)
Paterson Clarence Hughes
Australian fighter ace
Paddy Finucane
British RAF officer killed in action
Franjo Kluz
Yugoslav partisan (1913–1944)
Ken Farnes
English cricketer (1911-1941)
Zdzisław Henneberg
Captain of the Polish Air Force, Squadron Leader of the Royal Air Force, fighter pilot (1911-1941)
Guy Menzies
aviator (1909-1940)
Charles Hubert Boulby Blount
English cricketer and airman (1893-1940)
William Parr
English professional footballer (1915-1942)
John Dundas
British flying ace (1915-1940)
Sidney Pugh
English footballer (1919–1944)
John Dering Nettleton
Royal Air Force officer (1917-1943)
Jean Offenberg
Belgian flying ace (1916–1942)
Arthur Sweeney
British athlete
Jack Agazarian
Espionage agent (1916–1945)
Otto Smik
Slovak pilot (1922-1944)
Michael Anderson
Cricket player, born 1916 (1916–1940)
Arsen Cebrzyński
Polish officer (1912–1940)
Harry Carr
English cricketer (1907-1943)
Vernon Keogh
American World War II RAF pilot
Eric Lock
RAF fighter ace during WW2
Charles Allberry
British egyptologist (1911–1943)
Graham Bell
painter (1910-1943)
François de Labouchère
French aviator (1917–1942)
Aleksander Chudek
Polish fighter pilot
Adrian Warburton
British World War II pilot (1918–1944)
Kenneth Campbell
Scottish airman (1917–1941)
Halldor Espelid
Norwegian aviator (1920-1944)
Marian Bełc
Polish fighter pilot and officer
Stanisław Karubin
Sergeant of the Polish Air Force, fighter pilot