Squadron Leader Basil Gerald 'Stapme' Stapleton DFC DFC (Dutch) RAF (born on 12 May 1920 in Durban, South Africa) was a Spitfire fighter ace and Typhoon pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He prefers the name Gerald and was nicknamed 'Stapme' after a phrase used in his favourite cartoon strip Just Jake published in The Daily Mirror.

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  • 1939-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
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  • Squadron Leader Basil Gerald 'Stapme' Stapleton DFC DFC (Dutch) RAF (born on 12 May 1920 in Durban, South Africa) was a Spitfire fighter ace and Typhoon pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He prefers the name Gerald and was nicknamed 'Stapme' after a phrase used in his favourite cartoon strip Just Jake published in The Daily Mirror. His score of 6 enemy aircraft destroyed, 2 shared destroyed, 8 probably destroyed and 2 damaged, all achieved on Spitfires during the Battle of Britain made him one of the outstanding pilots of that battle and he was revered as one of Richard Hillary's contemporaries in whose book The Last Enemy, he features. Without doubt he was one of the real 'characters' to survive the war and to many the quintessential image of a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, complete with handlebar moustache.
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  • Stapleton in 2004
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  • Squadron Leader Basil Gerald 'Stapme' Stapleton DFC DFC (Dutch) RAF (born on 12 May 1920 in Durban, South Africa) was a Spitfire fighter ace and Typhoon pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He prefers the name Gerald and was nicknamed 'Stapme' after a phrase used in his favourite cartoon strip Just Jake published in The Daily Mirror.
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