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Group Captain Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith, DSO & Bar, DFC & Two Bars, AE (28 May 1914 – 11 December 1996) was a Royal Air Force flying ace of the Second World War. He was the father of Iain Duncan Smith (Member of Parliament and former Leader of the Conservative Party).
Duncan Smith, W. G. G., 1914-, Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- Biography, Great Britain.
29 de mar. de 2022 · Spitfire into battle. Group Captain Duncan Smith flew and fought in front-line operations continuously through World War Two from start to finish. This account presents his dramatic story of the air war from the cockpit of the now legendary Supermarine Spitfire.
Group Captain Duncan Smith flew and fought in front-line operations continuously from the Battle of Britain through the struggle for Malta, the invasion of Italy and the liberation of France.
Wilfred George Gerald Duncan Smith. Duncan Smith was given his mother's maiden name (Duncan) as a middle name—a fairly conventional practice of the Edwardian period—but his father's name was "Smith", not "Duncan Smith" and, in Second World War RAF records, Duncan Smith himself is always listed as W. G. G. D. Smith, not W.G.G. Duncan Smith.
Group Captain Duncan Smith flew and fought in front-line operations continuously from the Battle of Britain through the struggle for Malta, the invasion of Italy and the liberation of France....
Duncan-Smith retired in 1973 and wrote his memoirs of flying during World War II “Spitfire into Battle” in 1981. He died on December 11th 1996. His son Iain Duncan-Smith went on to be leader of the Consevative Party.
