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Adolph Gysbert Malan DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (24 March 1910 – 17 September 1963), better known as Sailor Malan, was a South African fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force (RAF), who led No. 74 Squadron RAF during the height of the Battle of Britain. Malan was known for sending German bomber pilots home with dead crews as a warning to other ''Luftwaffe'' crews.〔The Second World War, John Keegan, Penguin Books 1989, p. 102〕 Under his leadership No. 74 Squadron became one of the RAF's best units. Malan scored 27 kills, seven shared destroyed, three probably destroyed and 16 damaged.〔Price 1997, p. 65.〕 Malan survived the war to become involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his country. His younger brother, George F. Malan, was killed flying with No. 72 Squadron RAF as a Spitfire pilot in Tunisia, in early 1943.〔Oxspring, Bobby. ''Spitfire Command'' London Grafton 1984 p161, p166 ISBN 0586070680〕 ==Early life== Malan was born in Wellington, Western Cape, then part of the Cape Colony. He joined the South African Training Ship ''General Botha'' in 1924 or 1925 as a cadet (cadet number 168), and on 5 January 1928 engaged as an officer cadet (seaman's discharge number R42512) aboard the ''Landsdown Castle''〔CR1 record card, R42512, record group BT348, The National Archives (London)〕 of the Union-Castle Line of the International Mercantile Marine Co. which later earned him the nickname of "Sailor" amongst his pilot colleagues.
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