Nickname(s) Pip Name Patrick Playfair Rank Air Marshal | Service/branch Royal Air Force Allegiance United Kingdom | |
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Birth name Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair Died 23 November 1974 (aged 85)
Newmarket, Suffolk, England | ||
Air Marshal Sir Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair, (22 November 1889 – 23 November 1974) was a commander in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force until his retirement during the Second World War.
In 1945 he published Warfare Today: How Modern Battles Are Planned and Fought on Land, at Sea, and in the Air, co-written by Major General J. F. C. Fuller and Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon.
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