• two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944?
• John "Willy" Williams , the Australian World War II air ace who later took part in the "The Great Escape", became a POW merely three days after being promoted to command No.450 Squadron RAAF?

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No. 3 Squadron RAAF

• 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?

No. 466 Squadron RAAF

• a World War II pilot from No. 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, escaped death when he fell onto a fellow crew member in mid-air and shared his parachute?