• RAAF fighter pilot Brian Eaton (pictured) was shot down three times in ten days in 1943, but went on to become his squadron's commanding officer and eventually retire as an Air Vice Marshal?
• Australian fighter pilot Lieutenant (later Air Vice Marshal) Adrian Cole (pictured) was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 for attacking six enemy aircraft threatening Allied cavalry?
• a purge of senior ranks in 1946 left Air Vice Marshal George Mackinolty (pictured) as one of only two officers in the Royal Australian Air Force who had seen service in both world wars?
• Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) Henry Wrigley (pictured) piloted the first trans-Australia flight, from Melbourne to Darwin, in 1919?
• Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) William H. Anderson (pictured) and his observer, Lieutenant J.R. Bell, accounted for No. 3 Squadron AFC's first confirmed kill in World War I?
• Air Vice Marshal Frank Bladin (pictured) was nicknamed "Dad" for the concern he showed for the welfare of his personnel?
• Air Vice Marshal Joe Hewitt began his military career as a thirteen-year-old cadet in the Royal Australian Navy?
• Air Vice Marshal Ellis Wackett, the RAAF's senior engineer from 1935 to 1959, was nicknamed "Punch" for his prominent chin and nose?

Facts on topics related to Air Vice Marshal

Air Marshal

• Air Marshal Charles Read broke with tradition by refusing to sit for the usual portrait painted of retiring RAAF Chiefs of the Air Staff?
• Air Marshal John McCauley's (pictured) university degree was an unusual qualification for a pilot in the pre-war RAAF, whose officers generally "valued little beyond flying ability"?
• Air Marshal Sir Michael Giddings, an RAF officer who flew Spitfires during World War II, chaired the infamous inquiry concerning the Archway Road A1 extension that would have demolished almost 200 homes?
• Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford flew Catalina flying boats in the Second World War, and was involved in the last sinking of a German U-boat on 8 May 1945?
• British Air Marshal Joubert de la Ferté served as commander-in-chief of RAF Coastal Command on two separate occasions, before and during the Second World War?
• before Air Marshal Richard Williams was called "Father of the RAAF", the title was often accorded to Group Captain Eric Harrison, who gave Williams his initial flight training?
• in the early 1950s Air Marshal Donald Hardman (pictured) transformed the Royal Australian Air Force's command structure from one based on geographical area to one based on operational function?
• the B-24 Liberator in which Air Marshal Sir Peter Drummond was travelling when lost at sea in 1945 had previously been the personal transport of Winston Churchill?
• the military career of Australian Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch spanned 40 years, including seaplane flying in the 1930s and a tenure as Chief of the Air Staff during the Vietnam War?
• towards the end of World War II, British Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front?

Air Chief Marshal

• Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges was awarded two DSOs and a Bar to his DFC for flying secret missions for SOE in Europe and the Far East in the Second World War?
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty gained both a mention in dispatches and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his operational flying in Iraq in the early 1920s?
• Group Captain (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Frederick Scherger was one of the few senior RAAF officers in Northern Australia to emerge from the inquiry into the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 with his career undamaged?
• Neville McNamara (pictured) was only the second RAAF officer to be promoted Air Chief Marshal, and the last Chief of the Air Staff to be knighted before Australia abandoned imperial honours?

Air Commodore

• Flying Officer (later Air Commodore) Frank Lukis was one of the original twenty-one officers in the RAAF when it was formed in 1921?

Group Captain

• Group Captain (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Frederick Scherger was one of the few senior RAAF officers in Northern Australia to emerge from the inquiry into the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 with his career undamaged?
• Group Officer Clare Stevenson was the first Director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)?
• RAAF Beaufort squadrons fighting in New Guinea under the command of Group Captain Val Hancock were so short of ammunition in 1945 that they used captured Japanese ordnance to augment their bomb loads?
• at 24, Wilfred Arthur was the youngest Group Captain in the history of the Royal Australian Air Force?
• before Air Marshal Richard Williams was called "Father of the RAAF", the title was often accorded to Group Captain Eric Harrison, who gave Williams his initial flight training?
• the Commanding Officer of RAAF Station Richmond in 1938–40, Group Captain "Kanga" De La Rue, was once locked up by his own guards when he tried to enter the base without a pass?

Marshal of the Royal Air Force

• Michael Beetham, World War II bomber pilot, is now senior Marshal of the Royal Air Force?