Petrus Hendrik Hugo, DSO, DFC & Two Bars[3] (20 December 1917 – 6 June 1986) was a South African fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.

Petrus Hendrik Hugo was born 20 December 1917 on the farm Pampoenpoort in the Victoria West district, Cape Province.

[4] On 1 April 1939, Hugo was awarded a Short Service Commission in the Royal Air Force as an acting pilot officer on probation.

On 16 August he claimed a He 111 probably destroyed over Newhaven, but was himself hit by cannon shell splinters from a Messerschmitt Bf 110.

On 23 August 1940, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in recognition of the following: "During June and July, 1940, he destroyed five enemy aircraft".

[11] On 12 February 1942 during the channel dash of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, he shot down one Bf 109 and damaged a second.

On 2 December he shot down two Italian Breda Ba 88 bombers of 30 gruppo near La Galite, one being shared, and on 14 a Savoia-Marchetti SM.79.

He led 322 Wing for the next four months until posted to HQ, North-West African Coastal Air Force.

On 2 September Hugo shot down a Fw 190 near Mount Etna and on 18 November he got his last confirmed victory of the war, an Arado Ar 196 Floatplane of Seeaufkl.

Of these, 12 and one shared destroyed were scored in the Spitfire V. In November 1944, he was granted permission to wear the Distinguished Flying Cross he had been awarded by the President of the United States "in recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with the war".