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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).
- 1936–1960
- Royal Air Force
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.
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.
27 lug 2021 · Introduction. Group Captain Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith, DSO & Bar, DFC & Two Bars, AE (28 May 1914 to 11 December 1996) was a Royal Air Force flying ace of the Second World War. He was the father of Iain Duncan Smith, a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1992 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2003.
11 dic 1996 · 28 May 1914 - 11 December 1996. 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. First RAF fighter pilots to land in southern France, 1944. On the right is W/C Duncan Smith,
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...
1 gen 2002 · Group Captain Duncan-Smith was one of the men who gave the best years of his life in service of King and Country in the Second World War. In this book he writes movingly and lucidly of the realities of being both a fighter pilot and a commander of fighter pilots throughout the European and Mediterranean theatres of the war.
- W.G.G. Duncan Smith
