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Group Captain Percy Charles "Pick" Pickard, DSO & Two Bars, DFC (16 May 1915 – 18 February 1944) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He served as a pilot and commander, and was the first officer of the RAF to be awarded the DSO three times during the war.
After an undistinguished academic career at Framlingham College, Suffolk, Pickard left for Kenya in 1932, where he farmed for four years and earned a three handicap at polo. In November 1935 he joined the King's African rifles reserve as a territorial.
12 de nov. de 2023 · For his part in the raid, Percy was awarded a second DSO. In October 1942, Percy was posted as CO of 161 Sqn, a clandestine special duties unit, supporting the resistance movement in France -- delivering and picking up agents which usually entailed landing and taking off from fields.
25 de jun. de 2017 · Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard DSO and Two Bars, DFC, led the famous raid by Mosquitos on Amiens prison in February 1944.
Percy Pickard, known for his role as a pilot in the 1941 propaganda film 'Target for Tonight', was the first RAF officer to be awarded the DSO and two bars in the Second World War. John Broadley was another able RAF officer whose career ran parallel with that of Pickard's during the war.
Group Captain Percy Charles "Pick" Pickard, DSO & Two Bars, DFC (16 May 1915 – 18 February 1944) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He served as a pilot and commander, and was the first officer of the RAF to be awarded the DSO three times during the war.
16 de feb. de 2024 · 80 years ago on 18 February 1944, Group Captain Percy Charles (Pick) Pickard DSO** DFC (G26-32) lead a daring raid on Amiens Prison in Northern France. During this successful raid, Pickard and his navigator sadly both lost their lives.
