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Squadron Leader Basil Gerald "Stapme" Stapleton (12 May 1920 – 13 April 2010) was a RAF officer and fighter ace who flew Spitfires and Typhoons during World War II. He preferred the name Gerald and was nicknamed 'Stapme' after a phrase used in his favourite cartoon strip ''Just Jake'' published in The Daily Mirror. His score of 6 enemy aircraft destroyed, 2 shared destroyed, 8 probably destroyed and 2 damaged,〔'Aces High, Shores and Williams, (Grub Street 1994), page 564〕 all achieved on Spitfires during the Battle of Britain made him one of the outstanding pilots of that battle and he was revered as one of Richard Hillary's contemporaries in whose book ''The Last Enemy'', he features. Without doubt he was one of the real 'characters' to survive the war and to many the quintessential image of a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, complete with handlebar moustache. ==Early life== Born on 12 May 1920 in Durban, South Africa, Stapleton was educated in England, at King Edward VI School at Totnes, Devon.
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