- SURNAME
O'Brien
- FORENAME
Terence Patrick
- UNIT
357 Squadron (RAFVR)
- RANK
Squadron Leader
- NUMBER
88689
- AWARD
Distinguished Flying Cross and bar,Croix de Guerre (Fr)
- PLACE
Far East 1945
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
pilot
born 4.11.1915 Maitland,New South Wales,Australia
RAF Depot,Uxbridge (AC2)
a balloon station,near Newcastle
Group HQ,RAF Dishforth
ITW,Cambridge
Flying training,Fair Oaks 1941
FTS,Brize Norton
Army Co-op OTU,Andover
53 Squadron
62 Squadron
staff,General Recce School,Juhu,Bombay
air liaison officer to 4/9th Gurkha Rifles,1st Chindit expedition 1943
OC GRS,Juhu and OC Juhu and Santa Cruz Airfields,Bombay
357 Squadron
author of
"Out of the Blue" 1985
The Moonlight War" 1987
"Chasing After Danger: A Combat Pilot's War Over Europe and the Far East,1939-42"
1992
married Timmie (ex SOE) 1946 (died 1996) (2 sons)
freelance journalist postwar
hotel owner,Tenerife 1950s
school teacher,Britain
died 10.9.2007
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