Gerald Pilditch
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Who is Gerald Pilditch?
Lieutenant Gerald Pilditch was a South African World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. He won a Military Cross on 11 April 1918. On 11 June, he rescued American pilot Lieutenant J. H. Ackermann from six German fighters. Pilditch shot down one, and possibly two, of the three Germans who were on the wounded American's tail.
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