ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945. - Wing Commander G H Westlake, Commanding Officer of Mobile Operations Room Unit, photographed with a cask of Sicilian wine at Comiso. Westlake shot down nine enemy aircraft and shared in the destruction of two during his period as a fighter pilot with Nos, 80 and 213 Squadrons RAF, leading the latter unit in North Africa between August and October 1942. He then worked as a controller with Nos. 211 and 212 Groups in Tunisia before becoming 1 MORU for the invasions of Sicily and Italy. He later returned to operations, co
ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945. - Wing Commander G H Westlake, Commanding Officer of Mobile Operations Room Unit, photographed with a cask of Sicilian wine at Comiso. Westlake shot down nine enemy aircraft and shared in the destruction of two during his period as a fighter pilot with Nos, 80 and 213 Squadrons RAF, leading the latter unit in North Africa between August and October 1942. He then worked as a controller with Nos. 211 and 212 Groups in Tunisia before becoming 1 MORU for the invasions of Sicily and Italy. He later returned to operations, commanding a unit of the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force, then leading No. 239 Wing RAF in Italy until June 1945. He was responsible for the success of Operation BOWLER, when, on 26 March 1945, he led the wing on a very sensitive attack on shipping in the harbour of Venice Royal Air Force, 1 Mobile Operations Room
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