| LC control no. | no2012071906 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tait, James Brian |
| Variant(s) | Tait, Willie |
| Found in | Target Tirpitz, 2012: t.p. (James Brian Tait) Bishop, Patrick. The hunt for Hitler's warship, 2015: ECIP galley (Wing Commander Tait; James Brian Tait; James Tait; for reasons never established, he was always known as Willie; Tait was born on December 9, 1916, in Manchester, England; Tait stayed on after 1945, serving in the Middle and Far East, retiring as a group captain in 1964; he trained as a computer programmer) Wikipedia, March 16, 2015 (Group Captain James Brian "Willie" Tait; born December 9, 1916; died August 31, 2007; he was an officer in the Royal Air Force during and after the Second World War; he conducted 101 bombing missions during the war, including the one that finally sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944; he succeeded Leonard Cheshire as commander of the famous 617 Squadron and, with six gallantry decorations to his name, remains one of the most distinguished airmen in the history of the nations of the British Commonwealth) |
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