Billy Drake, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Billy Drake

British flying ace

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1917

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 28-Aug-2011

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Group Captain Billy Drake, (20 December 1917 – 28 August 2011) was a British fighter pilot and air ace.
He was credited officially with 18 enemy aircraft destroyed, two shared, two unconfirmed, four probables, two shared probables and five damaged and one shared damaged with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
Further revisions to these statistics increased this total to 20 destroyed and seven damaged with a further 13 destroyed and four damaged on the ground.Drake flew Hawker Hurricanes, Supermarine Spitfires and Curtiss P-40s (Tomahawks/Kittyhawks), with squadrons based in France, England, West Africa, North Africa and Malta.
He was the top-scoring RAF P-40 pilot and the second-highest-scoring British Commonwealth P-40 pilot, behind Clive Caldwell.