Bidspirit auction | WW2 Douglas Bader DFC RAF

WW2 Douglas Bader DFC RAF Battle of Britain hand written note on headed paper, with laminated tape cover fixed over the letter. Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar, DL, FRAeS (21 February 1910 - 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War, who achieved great success despite loss of the lower part of both his legs after a 1931 air crash, one amputation above the knee and the other below the knee. Resuming flying in 1939 after being re-checked for his flying abilities, he became a front-line fighter leader. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.