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FLGOFF Jack Frederick Vintner 425789

Squadron/s451 SQN
Rank On Discharge/Death Flying Officer (FLGOFF)
Date of Birth19 Jan 1924
Contributing Author/sCompiled by Vince Conant
2016
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Date of birth - 19 Jan 1924
Place of birth - BOWRAVILLE NSW
Place of enlistment - BRISBANE
Next of Kin – VINTNER, DAPHNE



Back Row: F/O David A. Cooper, W/O Norman W. Stewart, W/O Sidney A. (Sid) Handsaker, W/O Colin R. (Bob) Green, W/O C. Allen Hulls. Middle Row: F/O Stanley J. (Ned) Kelly, F/O Edward R. (Ted) Newberry, F/O Ronald Watkins, W/O Gordon L. (Hap) Richards, F/O Jack F. Vintner, W/O Harold H. (Hop) Hopper, F/O Wilfred R. (Bob) Fields, W/O John F. McDonald, F/Lt Colin R. Pym. Front Row: W/O Frederick N. Ebert, F/O John R. (Jack) Evans, S/Ld Colin W. Robertson, (451 SQDN), Squadron Emblem, F/Lt David L. Fisher, F/O C. Ralph Hill, F/O Arthur T. Roe, Not Present: F/Lt Rodney Earl, F/O V. Bruce Robertson, F/O Herbert E. (Ted) Holton, F/O Joseph A. Barrington, F/O Bruce Fuller
Corsica Flightline
Calvi, Corsica, France. c. 1944-07. Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX MH771 of No. 451 Squadron RAAF parked on the local airfield. (Donor H. Johnson)
RAF Station Matlaske, England. C. 1945-05. Pilots of No. 451 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF standing around an aircraft, prior to an escort mission. Left to right: Flying Officer (FO) E. R. Newberry of Sydney, NSW; Flight Sergeant J. F. McDonald of Nagambie, Vic; Pilot Officer (PO) A. T. Roe of Condobolin, NSW; Flight Lieutenant R. H. Sutton of Vic (in cockpit); FO D. A. Cooper of Sydney, NSW, and PO W. R. Field of Sydney, NSW.

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451 SQN

No. 451 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force was raised at Bankstown, on the outskirts of Sydney, on 12 February 1941. Formed under Article XV of the Empire Air Training Scheme,...

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