James Catanach
(1921-1944)
RAAF bomber pilot
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James Catanach (28 November 1921 – 29 March 1944), known as "Jim" or Jimmy, was an Australian Handley Page Hampden bomber pilot who was taken prisoner during the Second World War. Reportedly the youngest squadron leader bomber pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force at the age of twenty he is notable for the part he took in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 and as one of the men re-captured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo.
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28 November 1921 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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29 March 1944 (aged 22) near Kiel, Free State of Prussia, Nazi Germany
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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