Allegiance United Kingdom Name John Whitworth Service/branch Royal Air Force Role Poet | Rank Air Commodore Education Merton College, Oxford Battles/wars World War II | |
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Born 10 January 1912 ( 1912-01-10 ) Died 13 November 1974(1974-11-13) (aged 62) Books Writing Poetry, Girlie Gangs, The Whitworth Gun, From the sonnet history of, Being the Bad Guy | ||
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Air Commodore John Nicholas Haworth Whitworth, (10 January 1912 – 13 November 1974) was a Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War. He was educated at Oundle School in Northamptonshire.
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Whitworth was station commander of RAF Scampton during the planning of Operation Chastise; in 1955 he was a technical advisor for the film dramatisation of the raid, The Dam Busters. Whitworth was portrayed by Derek Farr in the film.
Whitworth was later the Chief of Staff of the Ghana Air Force; he was succeeded by the Ghanaian J. E. S. de Graft-Hayford in 1962.
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