Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, DL, FRAeS (/ˈbɑːdər/; 21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force...

He was Douglas Bader! Bader wasn't a technical adviser but I suppose Kenny More modelled himself physically on Bader. More arranged to meet Bader to prepare...

More as Douglas Bader. Reach for the Sky may also refer to: Reach for the Sky (novel), a 1954 biography by Paul Brickhill about pilot Douglas Bader, the...

Douglas Bader beats all the odds to help turn the tide in the Battle of Britain and become Britain's most celebrated air ace. The part of Douglas Bader...

American actor Douglas Bader (1910–1982), British fighter pilot and amputee Édouard Bader (1899–1983), French rugby union player Ernest Bader (1890–1982)...

Brave and the Bold. Karl Diedrich Bader was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on Christmas Eve, 1966, the son of Gretta Bader (née Margaret Marie Lange; 1931–2014)...

brought his tally to 70. On 9 August 1941, RAF ace Douglas Bader bailed out over St Omer, France. Bader was well known to the Luftwaffe and at the time of...

Spitfire right through his operational career from late 1940 to 1945. Douglas Bader (20 e/a) and "Bob" Tuck (27 e/a) flew Spitfires and Hurricanes during...

it as their callsign or handle. The most famous of these is probably Douglas Bader, who was an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. Look up dogsbody...

Sparrow, in Doctor in the House (1954) and Thelma Bader, the wife of the fighter pilot Douglas Bader (played by Kenneth More) in Reach for the Sky (1956)...

Ralph Thomas. Instead, More played the Royal Air Force fighter ace, Douglas Bader, in Reach for the Sky (1956), a part refused by Richard Burton. It was...

Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ˈbeɪdər ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/ BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who...

Escuadrilla de Alta Acrobacia Halcones ("Hawks High Aerobatics Squad"), known simply as the 'Hawks' (Halcones), is an active group of nine officers of...

Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Acting Squadron Leader Douglas Bader. In essence, the tactic involved meeting incoming Luftwaffe bombing...

proponents of the Big Wing tactic, most notably Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Douglas Bader, which along with the inadaquacies of RAF's night-time defence during...

uses her feet for all activities of daily living. She appeared with Douglas Bader in the documentary film Two of a Kind in 1971, which contrasted his...

Helios James Saito – Taro Tony Shalhoub – the Emir Charles Shaughnessy – Douglas Bader Ric Young – Hiroshi A number of voice actors for the show were starring...

personal connection to Reach for the Sky (1956) which he scored, since Douglas Bader (the subject of the movie) was his brother-in-law, having married Addison's...

offensive stance led to various experiments with formations. The flying ace Douglas Bader was the first RAF pilot to try the formation, in May 1941. After some...

others, Guy Gibson of 617 Squadron, who led 'The Dambusters', flying ace Douglas Bader, and Adrian Warburton, famous for his role in the defence of Malta....

Douglas Bader, the legless fighter ace, commanded the Tangmere wing of Fighter Command. Today he is commemorated by a plaque outside the former Bader...

the WW2 RAF fighter pilot Douglas Bader in 1982, Johnson, Denis Crowley-Milling and Sir Hugh Dundas set up the Douglas Bader Foundation, to continue supporting...

author Douglas Applegate (1928–2021), American politician Douglas Assis (born 1985), Brazilian footballer Douglas Bader, British flying ace Douglas Baker...

biography of Douglas Bader. It was one of the most acclaimed Australian radio dramas of the 1950s, and a notable success for Rod Taylor who played Bader. The...

1st US Army. Among the more notable inmates were British fighter ace Douglas Bader; Pat Reid, the man who brought Colditz to public attention with his...

Squadron" – and (secondly) for being the first squadron to be commanded by Douglas Bader. No. 242 Squadron was formed on 15 August 1918 from the numbers 408...

Conference Centre of Wales. 5 September – Air ace and war hero Sir Douglas Bader dies suddenly of heart failure aged 72 whilst being driven through Chiswick...

passed through RAF Cranwell on 26 July 1930 from the same class as Douglas Bader. ""Bobsleighing." Times [London, England] 6 Feb. 1931". Times Digital...

then "lost" again to be rediscovered some twenty years later. Gp Capt Douglas Bader, RAF flying ace, double leg amputee and subject of the documentary book...

occasional co-star Terry-Thomas and the prosthetic-limbed RAF flying ace Sir Douglas Bader. For his performance as President Merkin Muffley, Sellers assumed a...