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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 promoted Group Captain in November 1943 and took command of of No. 324 Wing RAF with whom he continued to fly operationally until March 1945. His final victory score was 17 enemy aircraft confirmed destroyed and two shared.
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.
Wilfred George Gerald Duncan Smith. 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.
Duncan Smith, W. G. G., 1914-, Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- Biography, Great Britain.
1 set 2003 · 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.
- Hardcover
- W.G.g.duncan Smith
