Thomas D. Calnan, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetThomas D. Calnan
British aviator
Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1915
Date of Death: 13-Sep-1981
Profession: aircraft pilot
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Thomas D. Calnan
- Thomas Daniel Calnan (16 December 1915 – 13 September 1981) was an English pilot and prisoner-of-war of World War II, who wrote a memoir of his time in German captivity entitled Free As A Running Fox. Calnan was commissioned in the RAF on 19 December 1936.Calnan was shot down while flying a Spitfire on a photo-reconnaissance mission over France in December 1941.
- He gives some brief background about himself and his flying career with the RAF's No.
- 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, but devotes most of the book to his escape attempts while a prisoner of the Germans.
- He was incarcerated at Stalag Luft III during the period of the "Great Escape."He was promoted to the rank of Wing Commander on 1 January 1949, and retired on 14 February 1959.
- Calnan latterly lived in Zinal, Switzerland, where he died in September 1981 at the age of 65.
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