Charles Crombie
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Arbuthnot Crombie DSO, DFC (16 March 1914 – 26 August 1945) was an Australian flying ace of the Second World War. Born in Brisbane, Queensland, he was working as a jackeroo when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in May 1940. Completing flight training in Australia and Canada, he flew in the European, Middle Eastern and South-East Asian theatres, amassing a tally of 12 Axis aircraft shot down, with an additional four probables. In a particular attack on 19 January 1943, Crombie intercepted a formation of four Japanese bombers over India. Despite his aircraft being set alight early in the engagement, he shot down two of the bombers and severely damaged a third before he was...