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- Air Commodore John Nicholas Haworth Whitworth, CB, DSO, DFC* (10 January 1912 – 13 November 1974) was a Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War. He was educated at Oundle School in Northamptonshire. Whitworth was station commander of RAF Scampton during the planning of Operation Chastise; in 1955 he was a technical advisor for the film dramatisation of the raid, The Dam Busters. Whitworth was portrayed by Derek Farr in the film. Whitworth was later the Chief of Staff of the Ghana Air Force; he was succeeded by the Ghanaian J. E. S. de Graft-Hayford in 1962. He retired to the village of Rodmarton in Gloucestershire with his wife. (en)
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- Central Flying School(1958–61)
- Chief of Air Staff Ghana(1961–62)
- No. 35 Squadron RAF(1942)
- No. 78 Squadron RAF(1940–41)
- RAF Hong Kong (1962–64)
- RAF Scampton(1942–43)
- RAF Swinderby(c. 1951–53)
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- Buenos Aires, Argentina (en)
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- Air Vice Marshal Ralph Cochrane, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, King George VI and Group Captain Whitworth discussing the 'Dambusters Raid' in May 1943 (en)
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- Cirencester, England (en)
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- Chief of Staff Ghana Air Force (en)
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- Air Commodore John Nicholas Haworth Whitworth, CB, DSO, DFC* (10 January 1912 – 13 November 1974) was a Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War. He was educated at Oundle School in Northamptonshire. Whitworth was station commander of RAF Scampton during the planning of Operation Chastise; in 1955 he was a technical advisor for the film dramatisation of the raid, The Dam Busters. Whitworth was portrayed by Derek Farr in the film. He retired to the village of Rodmarton in Gloucestershire with his wife. (en)
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- John Whitworth (RAF officer) (en)
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