James Scarlett-Streatfeild

Scarlett joined the Royal Air Force in 1927 as a flight cadet in "B" Squadron, Royal Air Force College Cranwell and on 15 December 1928 was commissioned pilot officer with service number 26093,[2] and posted to the staff at RAF Calshot a flying boat base, commencing his training on the "flying boat course" on 5 March 1929 preliminary to becoming a permanent member of staff and pilot at RAF Calshot.

203 Squadron RAF in October 1939 shortly after its arrival in Aden to convert from flying boats to twin engine Bristol Blenheim Mark I and IV's in which it flew reconnaissance and fighter patrols over the Red Sea and in action with the Italian Air Force after Italy entered the war in June 1940.

[8] Scarlett-Streatfeild was transferred in June 1941 when the squadron was posted to Egypt and Palestine, he became senior air staff officer No.

Western Desert under Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, provided the practical model upon which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and their staffs reorganized the Allied air forces in the North African and Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943.

The air interdiction model consisting of coastal, strategic, and tactical air forces was presented to the Casablanca planners by Tedder who along with primarily Lloyd, Ritchie, and especially Coningham, implemented and developed the model during the successful campaigns in Egypt and Libya.

[11] On 29 March 1943 Scarlett-Streatfeild was appointed senior air staff officer to HQ North-West African Coastal Force, being formally promoted group captain on 27 August 1943,[12] and then on 28 March 1944 becoming senior air staff officer HQ No.

Scarlett-Streatfeild headed the enquiry into the death of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory in an aircrash in November 1944.

With his Norwegian liaison officer Major Petter Cato Juliebø, he took off from RAF Great Dunmow at 0355 hours flying to Oslo aboard Short Stirling Mark IV (serial number "LK297") of No.

[16] On 21 June 1945 the wreckage of his aircraft, the remains of its crew, AVM Scarlett-Streatfeild and the paratroopers accompanying him was located at Andtjernåsen in the hills near Oslo, it had crashed into the hillside and exploded.