22 YEAR OLD SCOT GETS COMMAND OF FIGHTER SQUADRON - A scotsman who joined the as a boy apprentice when he was fifteen to train as an aircraft fitter, has just been promoted to the rank of Squadron Leader and given command of a squadron of Fighter Command. He is SQUADRON LEADER JOHN GARDEN, DFC., now aged 22, whose home is at Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, but who is now living at Barr Road, Gravesend, Kent. "Jack" Garden, as his fellow pilots call him, returned here from overseas a month or two before D-Day to take part in the invasion operations. He had previously been operating in Ma
22 YEAR OLD SCOT GETS COMMAND OF FIGHTER SQUADRON - A scotsman who joined the as a boy apprentice when he was fifteen to train as an aircraft fitter, has just been promoted to the rank of Squadron Leader and given command of a squadron of Fighter Command. He is SQUADRON LEADER JOHN GARDEN, DFC., now aged 22, whose home is at Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, but who is now living at Barr Road, Gravesend, Kent. "Jack" Garden, as his fellow pilots call him, returned here from overseas a month or two before D-Day to take part in the invasion operations. He had previously been operating in Malta, Sicily and Italy, and it was while serving in these theatres that he won his Picture (issued 1945) shows - SQUADRON LEADER JOHN GARDEN. Photographic negative , Royal Air Force
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