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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 2,395,908 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Douglas Bader is the 1,325th most popular military personnel (down from 1,164th in 2019), the 2,595th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,374th in 2019) and the 65th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Douglas Bader ranks 1,325 out of 1,468. Before him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Sergei Khudyakov, Peter Cosgrove, Pedro Teixeira, Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus, and Henri Dentz. After him are Hal Moore, Endel Puusepp, Jinichi Kusaka, Adolphe Niel, Guido Starhemberg, and William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Douglas Bader ranks 171. Before him are Donald Watson, Jean Martinon, Jean Servais, Vivien Thomas, Lee Wallard, and Herminio Masantonio. After him are Gunter d'Alquen, Edmund Leach, Marc Lawrence, José María Guido, Léon Poliakov, and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Among people deceased in 1982, Douglas Bader ranks 138. Before him are Fernando Lamas, Ulla Jacobsson, Sultan al-Atrash, Lauri Virtanen, Juhan Aavik, and Jean Effel. After him are René Dubos, Giorgio Abetti, Alfredo Ovando Candía, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Konrad Wolf, and Federico Moreno Torroba.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Bader ranks 2,595 out of 7,765. Before him are John Haigh (1909), John Winthrop (1588), David Bailey (1938), Edwin Lutyens (1869), Warwick Davis (1970), and Rutherford Alcock (1809). After him are Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Tommy Lawrence (1940), Richard Bremmer (1953), Phil Campbell (1961), Nobby Stiles (1942), and Gertrude Jekyll (1843).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Douglas Bader ranks 65. Before him are Claude Choules (1901), Horatio Gates (1727), George Rooke (1650), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), James Somerville (1882), and Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880). After him are Charles Warren (1840), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797), John Burgoyne (1722), Ronald Speirs (1920), and Henry Maitland Wilson (1881).

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