Medals of one of the finest Mosquito and Photo Reconnaissance Unit pilots to be offered at auction
Medals of one of the finest Mosquito and Photo Reconnaissance Unit pilots to be offered at auction Merifield went on to break two flying records, one over the Atlantic and one in South East Asia, prior to serving in Korea. LONDON .- Group Captain J. R. H. Merifield was an outstanding individual in WW2. He was widely recognised as one of the finest Mosquito and Photo Reconnaissance Unit pilots of the War, he flew in over 160 operational sorties and took the first photograph of a V1 flying bomb on a launch ramp at the Luftwaffe Test Installation at Peenemunde on the Baltic Island of West Usedom...
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