The Tangmere Logbook Magazine of the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Summer 2016 Jets over the Atlantic Mustang Bale-out • A Wife’s Tale Danish Presentation Spitfires • Donavon Smith Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Trust Company Limited Patron: The Duke of Richmond and Gordon Hon. President: Air Marshal Sir Dusty Miller, KBE Hon. Life Vice-President: Alan Bower Hon. Life Vice-President: Duncan Simpson, OBE Council of Trustees Chairman: Group Captain David Baron, OBE David Burleigh, MBE Reginald Byron David Coxon Dudley Hooley Peter Lee Ken Shepherd Bill Walker Joyce Warren Officers of the Company Hon. Treasurer: Ken Shepherd Hon. Secretary: Joyce Warren Management Team Director: Dudley Hooley Curator: David Coxon General Manager: Peter Lee Engineering Manager: Reg Lambird Events Manager: Jason Riches Publicity Manager: Pam Marsden Staffing Manager: Len Outridge Treasurer: Ken Shepherd Shop Manager: Sheila Shepherd Registered in England and Wales as a Charity Charity Commission Registration Number 299327 Registered Office: Tangmere, near Chichester, West Sussex PO20 2ES, England Telephone: 01243 790090 Fax: 01243 789490 Website: www.tangmere-museum.org.uk E-mail:
[email protected] 2 The Tangmere Logbook The Tangmere Logbook Magazine of the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Summer 2016 All for a Caterpillar 4 I survived a mid-air collision over Germany Ray D. Stebbings A Pilot’s Wife’s Tale 9 Waiting at home for news of Ray Effie M. Stebbings Danish Spitfires at War 14 The Danish pilots who few with the RAF, and their aircraft