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James Scott Yule A2690

Squadron/s54 SQN RAF
NicknameJim
Date of Birth27 Jan 1924
Contributing Author/sVince Conant, 2013
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Jim was born on 27TH January 1924. At the tender age of twenty he was deployed to Darwin in 1944 as ground support crew for No. 54 Spitfire Squadron. He moved with the squadron to Morotai and then onto Balikan and South Borneo. The Squadron's arrival at Balikan was made under Japanese fire. Jim became attached to No. 80 Liberator Squadron on Manus Island assisting the evacuation of women who had been prisoners of the Japanese.



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54 SQN RAF

Formed at Castle Bromwich on 5 May 1916, No 54 Squadron, like many others formed at the same time, was tasked with Home Defence duties flying BE2Cs. Four months later, however, ...

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