Bidspirit auction | RAF Gatow Signed by AM

RAF Gatow Signed by AM Sir Tim Piper, AVM B C Yarde both involved Berlin Airlift. 8 Oct 68 BFPS 1073 RAF Gatow Open Day. Personally Signed by Air Marshal M Sir Tim Piper, Air Vice Marshal Yarde both involved Berlin Airlift. Air Marshal M Sir Tim Piper He served in the Second World War as a flight commander with Number. 15 Squadron Royal Air Force but was shot down in July 1941 and spent a year as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III. His last appointments were as Air Officer Commanding, Number. After the War he became officer commanding, Royal Air Force Schwechat in Austria in 1946, wing commander - flying at Royal Air Force Gatow in 1948. Also Signed by Air Vice Marshal Yarde 1940 - 45 Served in France, Malaya and Middle East, 31 Jan 1942 Senior Directing Staff, RAF Wing, Middle East Staff School, Haifa. 20 Apr 1945 Deputy Director of Bomber Operations. 1946 Senior Director, RAF Staff College. Jul 1947: Officer Commanding, RAF Gatow. PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE Berlin Airlift of 1948. after the Russian blockade the city. As Commander of RAF Station Gatow, Derlin he handled more than 900 aircraft movements a day at the peak of ''Operation Plainfare'.