No. 79 Squadron RAAF (1943) Paratroop Training Unit RAAF (1944–45) No. 78 Wing RAAF (1945–46) No. 54 Squadron RAF (1949) RAF Guided Weapons Trials Unit (1953–58) RAF Buchan (1960–61)
Battles/wars
World War II
Middle Eastern theatre
Western Desert campaign
Syria–Lebanon campaign
South West Pacific theatre
New Guinea campaign
Borneo campaign
Cold War
Awards
Officer of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Flying Cross & Bar Air Force Cross
Alan Charles Rawlinson, OBE, DFC & Bar, AFC (31 July 1918 – 27 August 2007) was an Australian airman who became a fighter ace in World War II. He was credited with at least eight aerial victories, as well as two aircraft probably destroyed, and another eight damaged.
Born in Fremantle, Western Australia, Rawlinson joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1938. He was posted to the Middle East in July 1940 and saw action with No. 3 (Army Cooperation) Squadron, flying Gloster Gladiator and Gauntlet biplanes initially, and later Hawker Hurricanes and P-40 Tomahawks. Twice credited with shooting down three enemy aircraft in a single sortie, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in October 1941 and took command of No. 3 Squadron the next month. He received a bar to his DFC in December 1941, and returned to Australia in March 1942. In May the following year, Rawlinson was posted to the South West Pacific as the inaugural commanding officer of No. 79 Squadron, flying Supermarine Spitfires in New Guinea. After serving as commanding officer of the RAAF's Paratroop Training Unit at Richmond, New South Wales, between April 1944 and May 1945, he returned to the Pacific to command No. 78 (Fighter) Wing, which operated P-40 Kittyhawks in Borneo. Promoted to acting group captain in July 1945, he held command of No. 78 Wing until his discharge from the RAAF in December 1946.
Rawlinson was commissioned into the Royal Air Force (RAF) in March 1947. He flew de Havilland Vampire jet fighters as commanding officer of No. 54 Squadron in 1949, and then as commander of flying operations at RAF Odiham from 1949 to 1952. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in June 1952. Between 1953 and 1958 he was in charge of the RAF's Guided Weapons Trials Unit in the UK and Australia. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in June 1958, he commanded RAF Buchan in 1960–61 before retiring from the military to live in South Australia.
Alan Charles Rawlinson, OBE, DFC & Bar, AFC (31 July 1918 – 27 August 2007) was an Australian airman who became a fighter ace in World War II. He was credited...
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by over twenty CR.42s. On 22 January 1941, Arthur and Flying Officer AlanRawlinson were despatched in Gladiators to attack an Italian schooner off Tobruk;...
Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350. Ingram GJ, Rawlinson PA (1981). "Five new species of skinks (genus Lampropholis) from Queensland...
Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350. Ingram GJ, Rawlinson PA (1981). "Five new species of skinks (genus Lampropholis) from Queensland...
xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Niveoscincus coventryi, p. 60). Rawlinson PA (1975). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carinascincus coventryi...
Archived from the original on 28 March 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2014. Rawlinson PA (1974). "Revision of the endemic southeastern Australian lizard genus...
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served as a ground wireless mechanic at the site between 1949 and 1952. AlanRawlinson, former officer commanding in 1958 Until the domestic site was opened...
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the ground. Still, certain points may be approximately fixed ... — G. Rawlinson: 1 Herodotus was, according to his own statement, at the beginning of...
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