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James Brian Tait. 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.
10 de mar. de 2022 · Wg Cdr James Brian Tait, always known by the nickname “Willie”, succeeded Leonard Cheshire as commanding officer of 617 Squadron in July 1944. The squadron was then based at RAF Woodhall Spa.
James Brian Tait com um oficial australiano nos destroços do Tirpitz em 1945. Os britânicos realizaram várias análises do ataque. O quartel-general do Grupo Nº 5 investigou em dezembro de 1944 a precisão do bombardeio.
29 de mar. de 2018 · James Brian Tait, known to bomber crews as Willie, was born on December 9 1916 in Manchester and attended Wellingborough School. In 1928 his father took him to see the Schneider Trophy events...
Tait was the president of No 617 (Dam Buster) Squadron. In later years, he read widely and was passionate about the music of Schubert, especially his Lieder, researching in great detail the background to more than 400 of them.
James Brian ‘Willie’ Tait, born 9 December 1916 in Manchester, joined the Royal Air Force in 1934 and was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in 1936. Following the completion of his flying training at RAF Cranwell, Tait was posted to 10 (Bomber) Squadron at RAF Boscombe Down, where he flew the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber.
James Brian TAIT ( 33291) 35 Sqdn. In June, 1941, this officer was the captain of the leading aircraft of a formation of three Aircraft which carried out an attack on Kiel in clear daylight. Despite accurate anti-aircraft fire, bombs were dropped and observed to burst on the objective.
