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Douglas Bader

1910 - 1982

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Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, (; 21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War, who achieved great success despite amputation of both his legs after a 1931 air crash, one amputation above the knee and the other below the knee. Resuming flying in 1939, he became a front-line fighter leader. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. Bader joined the RAF in 1928, and was commissioned in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Douglas Bader is the 1,589th most popular military personnel (down from 1,528th in 2019), the 3,144th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,583rd in 2019) and the 74th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Douglas Bader ranks 1,589 out of 2,058. Before him are François Perrier, Vasyl Makukh, Baba Nobuharu, Hans Felber, Pierre André de Suffren, and Alfredo Astiz. After him are Mikhail Yegorov, Georges Mouton, Abbakka Chowta, Arleigh Burke, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Pierre Bosquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Douglas Bader ranks 213. Before him are Carlo Ceresoli, Peter Pears, Fei Xiaotong, Lupita Tovar, Erkki Aaltonen, and Herminio Masantonio. After him are Gus Hall, Gaston Defferre, Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Fritzi Burger, and Marc Lawrence. Among people deceased in 1982, Douglas Bader ranks 164. Before him are Seraphim Rose, Ed Hamm, Ludwig Bieberbach, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Gábor Szabó, and Harold Sakata. After him are Haskell Curry, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Alfons Dorfner, Carmelo Robledo, and Irmgard Keun.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Bader ranks 3,145 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Hooker (1554), Jason Flemyng (1966), Roger Norrington (1934), Angus Ogilvy (1928), Banastre Tarleton (1754), and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678). After him are Julian Bream (1933), Jonathan Glazer (1965), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), Gwendoline Christie (1978), Nick Hornby (1957), and Richard Marquand (1937).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Douglas Bader ranks 74. Before him are George Rooke (1650), John Alcock (1892), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Max Horton (1883), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), and Ronald Speirs (1920). After him are Edward Braddock (1695), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), Sidney Smith (1764), Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), James Somerville (1882), and Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724).

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