Geoffrey D. Stephenson

Commanding a squadron during the Dunkirk evacuation May 26, 1940, Stephenson was shot down, crash-landed his Spitfire on the beach and ten days later, surrendered to the Germans.

The 44-year-old pilot had flown several thousand hours in fighter aircraft, both piston and jet powered, during his 20-year RAF career.

He had piloted virtually every type of British jet fighter including Meteors, Venoms, Hunters and Swifts, as well as USAF F-86s.

Stephenson was best friends with the famous RAF ace, Douglas Bader, who was best man for Geoffrey and Maureen's wedding.

He had been flying Spitfire Ia, N3200, coded 'QV', while covering the British evacuation of the Dunkirk beaches, as part of Operation Dynamo.

Following the war, Stephenson served as the personal pilot to King George VI and [Queen Elizabeth II].

Lonnie R. Moore, jet ace of the Korean campaign, when his fighter dropped into a steep spiral, impacting at ~14:14 in a pine forest on the Eglin Reservation, one mile NE of the runway of Pierce Field, Auxiliary Fld.

Johnson H. Pace of St. Simons on the Sound church, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and attended by Air Vice-Marshal R. L. R. Atcherley, chief of the Chief Joint British Services Mission to the United States, who arrived from Washington on the night of 9 November; Major General Patrick W Timberlake, commander of the Air Proving Ground Command; Brig.