Three: Flight Lieutenant T. E. Bladun, Royal Air Force, a Spitfire pilot who flew operationally in No. 607 Squadron on the Burma front in 1945

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, generally good very fine (3) £350-400

Bladun, who had gained experience as a pilot with Southampton University Air Squadron, joined in the Royal Air Force in London in April 1943 and, after attending an Elementary Flying Training School in the U.K., was embarked for further training in Rhodesia. Posted to the Middle East in the summer of 1944, and to India at the end of the year, he joined No. 607 (County of Durham) Squadron in Burma in mid-February 1945, in which capacity he was actively employed until the defeat of the Japanese, completing in excess of 50 operational sorties over Mandalay, Meiktila, Pegu, Rangoon and elsewhere.

Sold with the recipient’s original R.A.F. Pilot’s Flying Log Book (Form 414), covering the period June 1943 to November 1946, a number of unused pages with pasted down newspaper images of Spitfires and two group photographs, including the recipient, together with three scarce “Safe Conduct” passes and an article from The Aeroplane Magazine, dated 2 February 1945, with images and text relevant to No. 607 Squadron in Burma.