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Group Captain Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith, DSO & Bar, DFC & Two Bars, AE (28 May 1914 – 11 December 1996) was a Royal Air Force flying ace of the Second World War. He was the father of Iain Duncan Smith (Member of Parliament and former Leader of the Conservative Party).
Group Captain Duncan Smith flew and fought in front-line operations continuously from the Battle of Britain through the struggle for Malta, the invasion of Italy and the liberation of France. Click here for artwork signed by this Ace!
Object description. Wing Commander W G G Duncan-Smith, Wing Commander Flying, No. 244 Wing RAF, with "Bonzo", a bulldog mascot of one of the squadrons of the Wing, standing by his personal communications aircraft, a commandeered Italian Saiman 202, at Tortorella, Italy. Duncan-Smith joined the RAFVR as a Sergeant pilot before the War and flew ...
Duncan Smith was given his mother's maiden name (Duncan) as a middle name—a fairly conventional practice of the Edwardian period—but his father's name was "Smith", not "Duncan Smith" and, in Second World War RAF records, Duncan Smith himself is always listed as W. G. G. D. Smith, not W.G.G. Duncan Smith.
In 1943 Duncan-Smith accepted the command of a fighter Wing based on Malta just in time to cover the Allied landings on Sicily. Duncan-Smith went on to command the 244th Wing before being promoted to Group Captain as commander of the 324th Wing covering the advance through Italy and the liberation of Southern France.
29 mar 2022 · Spitfire into battle. Group Captain Duncan Smith flew and fought in front-line operations continuously through World War Two from start to finish. This account presents his dramatic story of the air war from the cockpit of the now legendary Supermarine Spitfire.
Group Captain Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith, DSO* DFC** (28 May 1914–11 December 1996) was a British Royal Air Force Second World War flying ace. Duncan Smith was born in Madras, India on 28 May 1914, the son of an officer in the Indian civil service. He was educated in Scotland, where he...
