can anyone identify this uniform

[Gavriel]

Shalom

been looking for a israeli forum like this, i wanted to ask if anyone here can identify the uniform this man is wearing, i can not see the medal to tell if its a Jewish brigade soldier or other,

The 1st picture was taking in Tel Aviv 1942 then again 1944, obviously either jewish brigade or British forces for the mandate, not sure, but one thing is for sure the man went to greece afterwards

[Madeline]

shalom.
hopefully, someone will be able to answer your question. good luck

[cinnamon]

it is a royal air force uniform, (british).

note two buttons on forage cap. wing shape pocket flaps.
google/bing: images: RAF uniforms=same.

[Bill Sticker]

At the end of the movie Battle of Britain all those who fell were listed by nationality. There was one pilot listed as an Israeli who had been killed and 34 others who had flown in combat and survived. After the war the Israel airforce flew spitfires which this country had aplenty to supply them with. I dont know if the unifoms they wore were RAF style or somthing different which is more likely I imagine

http://www.flying-wings.com/air2air/...e_A2A-2018.jpg

I googled this and found the info below

His name was George Goodman. He did not survive the war.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...w2/sugar4.html


42598 George Ernest Goodman was Pilot Officer, later Flying Officer in No. 1 Squadron. His story is exceptional as he was born in Haifa, Israel on 8/10/20, though he may not have been Jewish. Wynn says he was British solely because he had a British passport – like most born under the Mandate - but he was in fact an Israeli “sabra” and the only Israeli in the Battle of Britain. RAF Museum researcher John Edwards testifies to these facts in an article in “London Jewish News” , 22/9/2000, by reporter John Kaye [9]. Furthermore in Mason’s book [10] on page 506, Goodman is described as “Palestinian”, in another [11] as “Israeli”, and yet another [12] also as Israeli. The author also has in his possession an official copy of Goodman’s birth certificate, all in Hebrew, from the Haifa municipality in Israel, now kept at the AJEX Musuem [13].


Educated at Highgate school he was son of Sydney and Bida Goodman, was in the OTC and took a commission in the RAF in early 1939, joining his Hurricane Squadron in France in March 1940, where he shared a kill of an HE 111 and shot down another later which had helped sink the SS Lancastria off St Nazaire. Later, flying from Northolt he shot down an Me109, shared in another, then shot down an He 111 and then shared a Do 17 and then shot down another 110. On August 18th he was hit in his Hurricane P3757 but managed to land safely [14] .On September 6th 1940 he shot down another 110 but was himself shot down , baling out with an injury. His plane crashed at Brownings Farm, Chiddingstone Causeway. He later shared a Ju 88, damaged a Do 17 and was awarded the DFC on 26/11/40.


In Nov. 1940 he flew the ferry route for the Middle East with 73 Squadron and stopped at Lagos where his parents were working in the diplomatic service. He saw his mother for the last time (his father was away) and as the Squadron later flew out, they did a roll over the Goodman home and then were away.


In February 1941 he shot down a CR42 in the Western Desert, and a 110 at Tobruk, but he was shot down but crash landed behind the British lines. He then shared an Hs 126, destroyed a Ju 87 and shared another, all over Tobruk. In April he took leave in Haifa, Israel, with his two sisters, but on June 14th 1941 he was shot down and killed by flak over Gazala. He is buried in Knightsbridge cemetery, Acroma, Libya, grave 10.C.21 [15].

[cinnamon]

there was no israel during the battle of britain. the producers of the film were making reference to the several palestinian jewish pilots who flew with the RAF.
they were trained at british bases in what is now south africa or zimbabwe (rhodesia).

as far as I know most flew in the italian and mediterranean campaign theatres. the add on at the end of the film is not and can not be true as israel did not exist until after 1948.
it might indicate sympathy, it is self-given licence.

though the uniform is of the RAF, it is not a pilot's uniform but of ground crew at aircraftman rank,
which is the starting, or lowest rank.

the british maintained a base at lydda aerodrome as well as some in cyprus where it is
probable, given widespread territoriality, the person photographed was based.