raf catalogueRAFC18 Douglas Bader 1965 Evening News cover, signed by Douglas Bader. On the 5th September it will be 38 years since the passing of Douglas Bader. He joined the RAF in 1928 and was commissioned in 1930. He was credited with 22 Aerial Victories, four shared victories, six probables, one sheared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. RYB001K £125 £25 per month for 5 months Alan Cobham 1971 RAF Sealand, visit by Princess Margaret cover, signed by Alan Cobham. He was a member of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I. He became famous as a pioneer of long-distance aviation. RYC009F £250 £50 per month for 5 months Les Monro 2007 Formation of 617 Squadron, The Cenotaph (poppy) postmark. Flight Lieutenant John Les Munro, Pilot, AJ-W for Willie. Munro was a Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot during World War II and the last surviving pilot of the Dambusters Raid of May 1943. £50 per month for 2 months RYD617WPK £100 Odette Hallowes GC 1990 50th Anniversary of the George Cross cover, signed by Odette Hallowes GC, Harry Errington GC and Lieutenant Commander Horace Taylor. RYH011A £150 £50 per month for 6 months Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF 1 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RYD617NEG £50 2008 Operation Chastise; Guy Gibson cover with Scampton postmark. Signed Sargent Raymond E Grayston. RYG042A £15 50th Anniversary of Guadal Canal cover, signed by Colonel Jack Conger. He was a highly dec- orated United States marine corps Offi cer. He was a fl ying ace credited with shooting down 10 enemy aircraft and was awarded the Navy Cross during World War II. He also served on Guadal Canal with VMF 212 and 223. RYD617NF £75 Sargent Frederick Sutherland (1923-2019), took part in the Dambusters Raid with 617 Squadron, Front Gunner on AJ-N for Nut, our choice of signed cover. CALL US ON 01303 278137 RYD617NFC £75 2014 Operation Chastise, WWII Whitehall postmark. Signed by Sargent Frederick Sutherland, Front Gunner. Limited Edition of 50 RYD617NFD £75 The Night they Breached the Dams’ Scampton. Signed by Sgt Frederick Sutherland, Front Gunner. Limited Edition of 16. RYD617NFE £75 2013 Delivery Flights AJ-F cover. Signed by Sargent Frederick Sutherland, Front Gunner. Limited Edition of 50. RYD617NFF £75 2013 Delivery Flights AJ-G cover. Signed Sargent Frederick Sutherland, Front Gunner, AJ-N for Nut. Limited Edition of 50 RYD617NFG £75 2009 The Men of the Dams Raid: Les Knight, Scampton postmark. Signed Sargent Frederick Sutherland, Front Gunner. 2 Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF RAFC18RAF01 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] AJ-W (for Willie) RYD617WPB £100 Crew Members: £25 per month Flt Lt Les Munro (Pilot) for 4 months Sgt Frank E Appleby (Flight Engineer) 2008 Breaching the F/O Grant Rumbles (Navigator) Dams, Guy Gibson. Sgt Percy Pigeon (Wireless Operator) Signed Flt. Lt. John Sgt James H Clay (Bomber) Les Munro, Pilot, Sgt Bill Howarth (Front Gunner) AJ-W for Willie. Flt/Sgt Harvey A Weeks (Rear Gunner) Limited Edition of 20. RYD617WPL £100 £50 per month for 2 months RYD617WPM £100 £50 per month for 2 months 2009 Men of the Dam Raids: Warner Ottley. Signed Flt Lt 2012 The Men that breached the Dams, Scampton. John Les Munro, Pilot. 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Flt No interest charged - payment Lt John Les Munro options up to 12 months www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 RYG040U £50 1979 Captain Liddell Historic Aviators cover signed by Otto Schultz (1920-2013) – German ace with 73 victories from over 800 missions Commander W Robert Maxwell (1919- 2016) – American ace with 7 victories. RYG040T £75 1974 RAF Gliding cover, signed by Leo Schimacher (1914-1997) – German ace with RYG041A £35 23 victories from 250 missions Heinz Ewald (1922-2002) – German ace with 84 victories 1978 Anthony Fokker from 395 missions Gerd Achgelis (1908-1991) Historic Aviators cover, – German Test Pilot and Helicopter pioneer signed by Rudolf plus Battle of Britain pilots Graham Leggett, Szardening German Night Jocelyn Millard, Alan Gear and Trevor Gray. Fighter Ace with NJG 3, credited with 12 victories. CALL US ON 01303 278137 RYL010 £35 1979 Jet First Flight RAF cover, signed by Hans RYG041C £50 Jochin Langer German ace with 1987 Iron Cross Medal cover, signed by Walter Krupinski 58 confi rmed (1920-2000) – German ace pilot with 197 victories from victories from 1100 missions. 1136 missions. RYM015A £25 1978 Anthony Fokker Historic Aviators cover, signed by RYB008G £75 Otto Kutzner German Nightfi ghter ace with 9 Victories. 1970 30th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Hurricane fl own cover, signed by Battle of Britain pilots Alan Deere, Bertie Wootten and Desmond Sheen. Supplied with an original typed letter from Rembrandt Philatelics saying only 300 of these specials were produced by Group Captain Bill Randle. RYB008N £75 1990 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, RAF Coningsby cover, signed by pilots. William Walker, John Freeborn, Kenneth Lusty, Ken Mackenzie, Tony Pickering, Graham Leggett and Tom Neil. WE RUN REGULAR THEMATIC EMAILS WITH EXCLUSIVE OFFERS VISIT WWW.BUCKINGHAMCOVERS.COM/FAMILY TO ENSURE YOU’RE NOT MISSING OUT 4 Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF RAFC18RAF01 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RYB026E £150 £50 per month for 3 months 1965 Large Battle of Britain First Day Cover, signed by Battle of Britain pilots Archibald Winskill, R H James, Tony Russell, RYB001H £300 £50 per month for 6 months Dennis David, Frank Carey, Alec Ingle, Peter Ayerst, Z 1965 Battle of Britain large cover, Biggin Hill CDS postmark, Wroblewski, Roy Ford, Harold Bird Wilson and J Unwin Mann. signed by: Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, FRAeS, DL (1910 – 1982) – Ace pilot, prisoner of War and Colditz Inmate Neville Duke DSO, CBE, DFC & 2 Bars, AFC, FRAeS (1922 – 2007) – Fighter and test Pilot, Air Speed Record Holder Bill Reid VC (1921 – 2001) – Victoria Cross winning Bomber pilot. RYB039B £100 £50 per month for 2 months 1970 25th Anniversary of VE Day RAF Benson fl own cover, signed by Colonel Maurice Buckmaster (1902- 1992), World War II leader of the French Section of the Special Operations Executive, it was said their work shortened the war by six months. RYC009G £150 £75 per month for 2 months 1972 Kings Cup Air Race 50th Anniversary cover with a handwritten address, signed by Sir Alan Cobham (1894 – 1973) World War I pilot and aviation pioneer fl ying many long distance fl ights and working on aircraft design including infl ight refuelling. RYD004I £150 £50 per month for 3 months 1972 Kings Cup Air Race fl own cover, signed by General Jimmy Doolittle (1896 – 1993) led the famous American bomber raid and fl ew in early Air Races and German ace fi ghter pilot Kurt Buhligen (1917 – 1985) Luftwaffe Ace with 112 Victories. www FIND US ONLINE www.buckinghamcovers.com RYD617FR £100 £25 per month for 4 months e-mail Flight Sargent Grant S MacDonald (1921 – 2012) took part in EMAIL US the Dambusters raids with 617 Squadron, Rear Gunner on AJ-F * [email protected] for Freddie, our choice of signed cover www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 RKI01 £30 Tony Iveson was a Royal Air Force pilot and Veteran of the Second World War, and was also one of the Few. He retired from the RAF in 1949 then became Chairman of the Bomber Command Association. Signed cover of our choice. RKJ01 £35 RKH02 £125 £12.50 per month for 10 months Sir Richard Johns was a fi ghter pilot in the 1960s, a Sir Arthur Harris 1st Baronet Marshal of the squadron commander during Royal Air Force and an Air Offi cer Command- the 1970s and a station ing-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command dur- commander in the 1980s and ing the height of the Anglo-American strategic is now a retired senior Royal bombing campaign against Nazi Germany in the Air Force Commander. Signed Second World War. Signed cover of our choice. cover of our choice. RKL01 £50 Freddie Laker though best known as the founder of the fi rst ‘no-frills’ airline Laker Airways, he started in aviation much earlier with his fi rst small fl eet on cargo planes being RKJ02 £40 used in the Berlin Airlift Johnnie Johnson a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and in 1948-9. Signed cover fl ying ace—defi ned as a pilot that has shot down of our choice. fi ve or more enemy aircraft in aerial combat—who fl ew and fought during the Second World War. RKL04 £75 Signed cover of our choice. Mary Lindell OBE a controversial fi gure of the Second World War. Resistance fi ghter to some, to others she was a double agent on the German payroll. Signed cover of our choice. RKP01 £60 Oliver Philpot was a Canadian-born Second World War Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and subsequently a businessman, best known for being one of the three men to successfully escape from Stalag Luft III in the escape known as The Wooden Horse.