Gerald Pilditch

Gerald Pilditch
Born	Unknown
Died	Unknown
Allegiance	British Empire
Service/branch	Flying service
Rank	Lieutenant
Unit	No. 73 Squadron RAF
Awards	Military Cross

Lieutenant Gerald Pilditch was a South African World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.^[1] He won a Military Cross on 11 April 1918. On 11 June, he rescued American pilot Lieutenant J. H. Ackermann from six German fighters. Pilditch shot down one, and possibly two, of the three Germans who were on the wounded American's tail.^[2]

Sources of information

^ http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/safrica/pilditch.php
^ above the Trenches Supplement. p. 4.

References

Above the Trenches Supplement: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces. Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1996. ISBN 1-898697-39-6, 9781898697398

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