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    Air Commodore Alan Christopher Deere, DSO, OBE, DFC & Bar (12 December 1917 – 21 September 1995) was a New Zealand fighter ace with the Royal Air Force...
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  • derived from Dwyer. Alan Christopher Deere (1917-1995), New Zealand air force personnel Jack Deere, American pastor and theologian Jason Deere (born 1968), American...
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  • in his Defiant. Some media outlets suggested Farrier was inspired by Alan Deere. When the beach scenes were shot, the weather was worse than during the...
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  • videos Dunkirk, the Ending scene. Pilots from 19 squadron including Stephenson, Kenny Hart and Alan Deere force-landed their aeroplanes on the beaches....
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    18 September 1940, 6 + 1⁄2 kills during the Battle David Moore Crook Alan Deere Harbourne Stephen Paddy Finucane Toni Glowacki, (Ace in a Day) A.G. "Sailor"...
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    from Canada, "Sailor" Malan (27 e/a) from South Africa, New Zealanders Alan Deere (17 e/a) and C F Gray (27 e/a) and the Australian Hugo Armstrong (12 e/a)...
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    November 1939. Another pilot at the squadron was fellow New Zealander Alan Deere, who would go on to have a notable career with the RAF during the war...
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  • Boyington Baa Baa Black Sheep 1958 Robert S. Johnson Thunderbolt! 1958 Alan Deere Nine Lives 1959 Albert Scott Crossfield Always Another Dawn: The Story...
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    protection provided by a pair of Spitfires, flown by future flying aces Alan Deere and John Allen. Leathart landed at the site where he saw White go down...
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    pilots such as the first RAF ace of WW2, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere, whose Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat, and...
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    such as the first RAF ace of the war, Flying Officer Cobber Kain and Alan Deere (whose book Nine Lives was one of the early post-war accounts of combat);...
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    British Empire Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer Politics and Law Military Alan Deere, RAF Battle of Britain Pilot WW2 Sir Keith Park, Royal Air Force Commander...
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    James Colvin – politician G. F. J. Dart – educationalist, playwright Alan Deere – World War II fighter ace Anna Harrison – netball player Peter Hawes...
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    France; the first of these is usually credited to either Flying Officer Alan Deere who shot down two (according to other sources, one destroyed plus one...
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  • Fiji Defence Force Dan Davin - 2NZEF officer and author of war history Alan Deere - fighter pilot and flying ace with the Royal Air Force Antonio Dini -...
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    Crawford-Compton (20 & 1 shared) 15–19 Raymond Hesselyn (18 & 1 shared) Alan Deere (17 & 1 shared) Johnny Checketts (16) Edgar Kain (16) Brian Carbury (15...
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    French squadrons of Spitfires. Under the overall command of Wing Commander Alan Deere, and later Group Captain Adolph Malan, the wing was part of the Second...
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    Squadron's first claim in France. Two days later he and Pilot Officer Alan Deere, a New Zealander flying with the squadron, were detailed to escort Flight...
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    Nebraska. The first prototype of the Beardmore aircraft was flown. Born: Alan Deere, New Zealand air force officer, commander of the No. 403 Squadron among...
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    in this group of New Zealand wing commanders, sometime in 1944. The others, from left to right, are Colin Gray, Alan Deere, and Bill Crawford-Compton...
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    Engine". Air Force Museum of New Zealand. Retrieved 2 January 2019. Deere, Alan C. (1999) [1959]. Nine Lives. Manchester: Crecy Publishing. ISBN 0-907579-82-5...
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    Crawford-Compton (20 & 1 shared) 15–19 Raymond Hesselyn (18 & 1 shared) Alan Deere (17 & 1 shared) Johnny Checketts (16) Edgar Kain (16) Brian Carbury (15...
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    September – Peter McIntyre, painter and author (born 1910) 21 September – Alan Deere, air force pilot (born 1917) 24 September – Peter Butler, trade unionist...
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    Mungo-Park, 1940 Geoffrey Allard, 1940 Gerry Edge, 1941 Douglas Bader, 1941 Alan Deere, 1941 James 'Johnnie' Johnson, 1943 John "Cats Eyes" Cunningham Sailor...
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    Crawford-Compton (20 & 1 shared) 15–19 Raymond Hesselyn (18 & 1 shared) Alan Deere (17 & 1 shared) Johnny Checketts (16) Edgar Kain (16) Brian Carbury (15...
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    Aces during the Battle of Britain included Edgar Kain, Colin Gray and Alan Deere. Arthur Coningham commanded the Desert Air Force and later 2nd Tactical...
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  • December – Alan Stewart, rugby union player, university administrator 11 December – Owen Snedden, Roman Catholic bishop 12 December – Alan Deere, military...
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    Crawford-Compton (20 & 1 shared) 15–19 Raymond Hesselyn (18 & 1 shared) Alan Deere (17 & 1 shared) Johnny Checketts (16) Edgar Kain (16) Brian Carbury (15...
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    Crawford-Compton (20 & 1 shared) 15–19 Raymond Hesselyn (18 & 1 shared) Alan Deere (17 & 1 shared) Johnny Checketts (16) Edgar Kain (16) Brian Carbury (15...
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    Sweetman". Online Cenotaph. Auckland Museum. Retrieved 29 May 2020. Mitchell, Alan W. (1945). New Zealanders in the Air War. London, United Kingdom: George...
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