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- Group Captain James Brian "Willie" Tait, DSO & Three Bars, DFC & Bar (9 December 1916 – 31 August 2007) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during and after the Second World War. He conducted 101 bombing missions during the war, including the one that finally sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944. He succeeded Leonard Cheshire as commander of the famous 617 Squadron and with six gallantry decorations to his name, remains one of the most distinguished airmen in the history of the nations of the British Commonwealth. (en)
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- No. 35 Squadron(1941)
- No. 51 Squadron(1941)
- No. 617 Squadron
- No. 78 Squadron(1942, 1944)
- RAF Coningsby(c. 1953–55)
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- Second World War
* Operation Colossus
* Operation Paravane
* Operation Obviate
* Operation Catechism (en)
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- Tait on the wreck of german battleship Tirpitz, 1945 (en)
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- Computer programmer with ICL (en)
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- Officer Commanding No. 617 Squadron (en)
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- July – December 1944 (en)
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- Group Captain James Brian "Willie" Tait, DSO & Three Bars, DFC & Bar (9 December 1916 – 31 August 2007) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during and after the Second World War. He conducted 101 bombing missions during the war, including the one that finally sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944. He succeeded Leonard Cheshire as commander of the famous 617 Squadron and with six gallantry decorations to his name, remains one of the most distinguished airmen in the history of the nations of the British Commonwealth. (en)
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