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Cranston Fine Arts  Aviation Art World War Two Veteran Signatures UK and Commonwealth R  Raby, Ray |
[UP] - Raby, Ray - Rae, Jack - Ratcliff, Len - Rawlinson, Alan - Rees, Ken - Rees, W - Reid, Bill - Rice, Geoff - Richards, Lloyd - Riddle, Christopher - Riding, Harold - Rigby, Herbert - Roberts, David - Roberts, Ralph - Robertson, Douglas - Robertson, Sir Ian - Robillard, Larry - Roddis, Harold - Roddis, Joe - Rodger, Dave - Rodley, Ernest - Rogers, Ken - Rolland, John - Rollins, John - Roscoe, Arthur - Rose, Jack - Rose, Stuart - Ross, Don - Ross, Nicky - Rosser, Leslie - Rosser, Tom - Rothwell, Peter - Rowland, John - Russel, Blair - Russell, Anthony - Rutter, Norman - Rutter, Peter - Ryll, Stefan |
F/Lt Ray Raby
F/Lt Ray Raby jojned the RAFVR in 1940. His flying training began in the USA, where he was retained as an instructor with both USAF and RAF wings. He qualified on his return for an Air Navigators Certificate. He was posted to 519 Squadron, Wick, on Spitfires prior to joining 542 Squadron, Benson PRU with Jerry Fray as Flight Commander. In 1943, he was posted to Benson and survived 58 operational sorties until he was demobbed in 1946. In 1947 he joined 605 (County of Warwick) Wsquadron, Raux AF, Honiley on Vampire and Meteor jet aircraft as flight commander until disbandment in 1957. His total hours flown are 3265.
| F/Lt Ray Raby - Signed Aviation Art |
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Mission Accomplished by Philip West. 17th May 1943, Sqn Ldr Frank (Jerry) Fray in his Spitfire PRX1 of 542 Squadron operating out of RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, returned alone and unarmed to gather photographic evidence from 30,000 feet of the Möhne dam having been breached earlier the same day by 617 Squadron Lancaster bombers. |
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