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Eric Stanley Lock, DSO, DFC & Bar (19 April 1919 – 3 August 1941) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. Born in Shrewsbury , Shropshire in 1919, Lock had his first experience of flying as a teenager.
15. Sept. 2020 · Eric Lock is remembered for being one of the very best Aces of the Second World War, and were it not for his disappearance and presumed death on August 3, 1941, ten months on from the end of the Battle of Britain, he may have been officially named as our greatest ever pilot. Perhaps he is?
9. Apr. 2005 · Shropshire-born Eric Lock might have achieved much in civilian life, but circumstances conspired against him. Instead he became the RAF's most successful British-born pilot in the Battle of ...
Whatever happened, Flight Lieutenant Eric Lock DSO DFC was a brave and exceptional fighter pilot whose name is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial to the missing – and yet another highly experienced and irreplaceable pilot lost on these senseless Rhubarb operations.
Learn about Eric Lock, the most successful British-born fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, who shot down 22 German aircraft and was awarded the DFC and DSO. Find out his biography, achievements, and fate in this resource for schools.
21. Mai 2015 · Eric Lock was the most successful British-born RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain. By the time of his death in 1941 ‘Sawn Off Lockie’ Lock was a quadruple ace with 21 kills with the majority of these coming during the Battle of Britain -16.
19. Jan. 2019 · Eric Lock was a short but brave RAF pilot who shot down 17 enemy planes during the intense aerial warfare of 1940. Learn about his life, achievements, and legacy in this article by War History Online.
