COASTAL COMMAND ADDS NAME TO "ACES" BOOK - Flight Lieutenant JOHN ALEXANDER CRUIKSHANK, 24 year old Coastal Command Catalina pilot, who with 72 wounds in his body pressed home an attack on an enemy U-boat in northern waters some months ago and sank it, had added his autograph to a long list of "aces" collected since the Battle of Britain by Wing Commander Cleasby, of Coastal Command, who after serving in the for 25 years is now retiring. SEE BULLETIN : 19th April 1945. Wing Commander Cleasby watching Flight Lieutenant Cruickshunk, add


COASTAL COMMAND ADDS NAME TO "ACES" BOOK - Flight Lieutenant JOHN ALEXANDER CRUIKSHANK, 24 year old Coastal Command Catalina pilot, who with 72 wounds in his body pressed home an attack on an enemy U-boat in northern waters some months ago and sank it, had added his autograph to a long list of "aces" collected since the Battle of Britain by Wing Commander Cleasby, of Coastal Command, who after serving in the for 25 years is now retiring. SEE BULLETIN : 19th April 1945. Wing Commander Cleasby watching Flight Lieutenant Cruickshunk, add his autogruph to more than 1,000 signatures in Wing Commander Cleasby's "aces" album Royal Air Force


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