Denis Spotswood
Military Person
1916 – 2001
Who was Denis Spotswood?
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Denis Frank Spotswood GCB, CBE, DSO, DFC was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. He fought in World War II as a flying boat pilot and then as a coastal reconnaissance squadron commander during Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. He served as a station commander in the late 1940s and early 1950s before becoming a senior air commander in the late 1950s. As the Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1970s he had a major role in implementing the defence savings demanded by the Heath Government in the face of economic difficulties at the time.
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- Born
- Sep 26, 1916
Lewisham - Education
- Kingston Grammar School
- Died
- Nov 11, 2001
Henley-on-Thames
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on July 23, 2013
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