MILITARY PERSONNEL

Douglas Bader

1910 - 1982

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Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, (; 21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. Bader joined the RAF in 1928, and was commissioned in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Bader has received more than 2,501,358 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Douglas Bader is the 1,527th most popular military personnel (down from 1,324th in 2019), the 2,583rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,589th in 2019) and the 66th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Douglas Bader ranks 1,527 out of 2,058Before him are Patrick Gordon, Johann von Werth, Dmitry Milyutin, Braxton Bragg, Józef Chłopicki, and Murat Karayılan. After him are Henry Maitland Wilson, Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, Herman Kahn, Henri Saint Cyr, Nina Lobkovskaya, and Adolphe Niel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Douglas Bader ranks 188Before him are Erkki Aaltonen, Cahit Arf, Gunter d'Alquen, Jean Martinon, Léon Poliakov, and Roy J. Plunkett. After him are Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Diana Mosley, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Edwin O. Reischauer, Gyula Kállai, and Antal Szabó. Among people deceased in 1982, Douglas Bader ranks 140Before him are Olle Hellbom, Maria Jeritza, Christian Schad, Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Carlos Vidal, and Bernhard Rogge. After him are Konrad Wolf, Karol Borsuk, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Juhan Aavik, Gábor Szabó, and Gunnar Eriksson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Bader ranks 2,583 out of 8,785Before him are Tom Finney (1922), Paul Bernays (1888), Paul Nurse (1949), Jon Finch (1942), Jack Greenwell (1884), and Morris Travers (1872). After him are Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Gayatri Devi (1919), Ian McDonald (1946), Bob Anderson (1922), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), and James Whale (1889).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Douglas Bader ranks 66Before him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Sidney Smith (1764), John Alcock (1892), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), and Patrick Gordon (1635). After him are Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Thomas Gage (1719), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), James Somerville (1882), Charles Warren (1840), and Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724).