AUSTRALIA
World War II
NAME VICTORIES AIRFORCE COMMENTS Caldwell, Clive Robertson 28.5 [27+3] (+2 G) RAAF,RAF Waddy, John Lloyd 15.5 [15+1] RAF, SAAF, RAAF Hughes, Paterson Clarence 15.16 [14+3] (+0+1 U) RAF Truscott, Keith William 14 RAAF,RAF Scherf, Charles Curnow 13.5 [13+1] (+9 OTG) RAAF,RAF 12) Shipard, Mervyn Charles 13 RAF 1) Whittle, Robert James Clarendon 12.5 [11+3] RAAF,RAF Gaze, Frederick Anthony Owen 12.5 [11+3] (+1 V-1) RAF Yarra, William 12 RAAF,RAF Goldsmith, Adrian Philip 12 [11+2] (16.25) RAAF,RAF Mayers, Howard Clive 11.33 [11+1] RAF Crombie, Charles Arbuthnot 11 RAAF,RAF 2) Barr, Andrew William 11 RAF,RAAF Gibbes, Robert Henry Maxwell 10.5 [10+2] (+2 G) RAAF Armstrong, Hugo Trossell 10.5 [10+1] RAAF,RAF Cock, John Reynolds 10.25 [10+2] RAF Turnbull, Peter St. George Bruce 10 RAAF Brennan, Virgil Paul 10 RAAF,RAF Millington, William Henry 9.75 [9+2] RAF Coate, Edward Ernest 9.5 [9+1] (+1 G) RAAF,RAF 3) Williamson, Peter Greville Kaye 9 RAF 7) Parkinson, Colin Henry 8.33 [8+1] (+1 G) RAAF,RAF Clisby, Leslie Redford 8.33 [8+3] (16.5) RAAF,RAF Storey, William John 8 RAAF,RAF Steege, Gordon Henry 8 RAAF,RAF Rawlinson, Alan Charles 8 RAAF Bretherton, Bruce Albert 8 RAAF,RAF 5) Arthur, Wilfred Stanley 8 RAAF Pain, John Francis 7.33 [7+1] RAF Tweedale, Gordon Russell 7 RAAF,RAF Jackson, John Francis 7 RAAF Hampshire, Keith MacDermott 7 RAAF,RAF 13) Thorold-Smith, Raymond Edward 6.5 [6+1] RAAF,RAF Foskett, Russell George 6.5 [6+1] RAAF,RAF Cameron, Allan Cecil 6.5 [6+1] RAAF Boyd, Alan Hill 6.5 [6+1] RAAF Bisley, John Henry Eric 6.5 [6+1] RAAF,RAF Leu, Rudolph Moris 6.33 [6+1] RAF,RAAF Bowes, Roderick Russell Herbert 6.33 [6+1] RAAF,RAF Saunders, John Henry William 6 RAAF Rees, Stewart William 6 RAAF,RAF 6) Perrin, John Rowley 6 RAAF Mailey, Walter Henry Arthur 6 RAAF,RAF Cowper, Robert Barson 6 (+1 V-1) RAAF,RAF 11) Chisholm, Keith Bruce 6 [5+2] RAAF,RAF Cundy, William Ronald 5.66 [5+2] RAAF,RAF Boyd, John Livingstone 5.66 [5+2] RAF Rankin, Ronald 5.53 [4+4] (+3 G) RAAF,RAF 4) Paxton, Thomas G. 5.5 [5+1] RAAF,RAF McBurnie, Donald Hindle 5.5 [5+1] RAAF,RAF Jeffrey, Peter 5.5 [5+1] (+0+3 G) RAAF,RAF Smith, Donald Hamilton 5.33 [5+1] RAAF,RAF Wilson, Rex Kerslake 5 RAAF Vanderfield, Richaard Douglas 5 RAAF,RAF Spurgin, Arthur Leslie Mervyn 5 RAAF,RAF 8) Simes, Ronald Henry 5 RAAF Olive, Charles Gordon Chaloner 5 (+3 U) RAAF,RAF Nitschke, Richard Hastings 5 RAAF,RAF Jackson, Leslie Douglas 5 RAAF Hillary, Richard Hope 5 RAF Gordon, Reginald Lloyd 5 RAAF 9) Goold, Wilfred Arthur 5 RAF Giddy, Peter Radcliffe 5 RAAF Fry, Charles Horace 5 RAF,RAAF Cronin, Lawrence Francis Marshall 5 RAAF,RAF Clare, Alfred Wattle Benjamin 5 RAAF,RAF Bunting, Bobby 5 RAAF,RAF Bungey, Robert W. 5 RAF ? Kearney, J.T. 9 RAAF *) ? McDonald, Kenneth N. 8 RAF *) Bartle, John Phillip 4.5 [4+1] RAAF,RAF Atherton, Geoffrey Charles 4.5 [4+1] RAAF Sheen, Desmond Frederick Burt 4.33 [4+1] RAF Williams, John Edwin Ashley 4 RAAF,RAF Watson, Philip Herbert 4 RAAF Twemlon, Frank MacKay 4 RAAF Turner, Valton Leslie 4 (+2 V-1) RAF,RAAF Smithson, John Harold 4 RAAF Scott, Derek 4 RAAF Russell, Ian Bedford Nesbitt 4 [3+2] (+4 U) RAF Reid, Leonard Stanley 4 RAAF,RAF Neill, Garth Angus 4 RAAF McIntosh, Lawrence 4 RAF Kinninmont, Jack Royston 4 RAAF Judd, Garnett Wolsley 4 RAAF Jewell, W.E. 4 RAAF Glendinning, Alfred 4 RAAF Garvan, Denis William 4 RAAF Edwards, frederick Edward Fitzgerald 4 [2+4] (+0+1 V-1) RAAF,RAF Eccleston, Hubert Silvester 4 RAF,RAAF Curtis, Victor Farley 4 [3+2] RAAF Coward, George Cyril 4 RAAF Clarkson, K.E. 4 RAAF Cable, William Oswald 4 RAAF Ratten, John Richard 3 [2+2] RAF Howard, Basil 3 (+5 V-1) RAF 14) Hammond, Ronald Frank 3 (+2 G) RAAF,RAF 10) Constantine, Alexander Noel 3 RAF Glyde, Richard Lindsay 2.91 [2+3] RAF Roediger, Keith Alexander 2 (+9 V-1) RAF 15) Gatward, Alan Arthur 2 RAAF Carson, G. 1.5 [1+1] RAF Pelly, Blake 1 RAAF McLachlan, Ian D. 1 RAAF Hickey, William Joseph 1 RAF Gaden, Charles Burton 1 RAAF Peters, B.H. 0.5 [0+1] RAF MacKerras, D. J. 0 (+11+3 V-1) RAAF Lawson, C. M. 0 (+6 V-1) RAF Collier, Kenneth R. 0 (+7 V-1) RAF Navigator/Radar Operator: 1) Oxby, Douglas 2) Moss, R. C. 3) ? 4) ? 5) Johnson, T. E. 6) Bartlett, D. C. 7) Lake D. S. 7) Forrest, F. E. 8) Horris, D. A. 9) Jordan, Ronald S. 10) ? 11) Farquharson; Watson, Bill 12) ? 13) Condon, T. 14) Ross, J. R. 15) Dobson, R. J. H.Comments:
G ... ground victory
U ... unconfirmed victory
*) Source: Hess, William N. - The Allied Aces of World War II, Arco Publishing Co, Inc., New York 1966
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Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VIII A58-464 CR-C flown by Grp Capt Clive Caldwell,
OC No 80 Wg RAAF summer 1945.
