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Robert Samuel Herring (13 October 1896 – 9 January 1973) was a British officer who served in the Army and the Royal Air Force in both World Wars. In World War I he became a flying ace, and spent most of World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese. ==World War I== Born in Hunstanton, Norfolk, Herring enlisted into the 16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen's Westminster Rifles), The London Regiment, part of the Territorial Force, before the outbreak of the war, and was sent to France in November 1914 to fight on the Western Front.〔 On 1 March 1917 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 20th Battalion, London Regiment, and then transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in August,〔 where he trained as an observer/gunner before being assigned to 48 Squadron, flying the Bristol F.2 Fighter, on 20 November 1917.〔 Between January and March 1918 Herring shot down five enemy aircraft: *On 25 January Herring and his pilot Lieutenant Hugh William Elliott, were reconnoitring enemy positions over Sequehart when they were attacked by ''Leutnant'' Heinrich Kroll, ''Staffelführer'' of Jasta 24, in an Albatros D.III. Herring fired several machine gun bursts, until Kroll span away, and was forced to crash-land his damaged aircraft behind the German front lines.〔 * On 28 January while over Beaurevoir on another reconnaissance mission, Herring and his pilot 2nd Lieutenant Frank Cecil Ransley, attacked a formation of four enemy aircraft, and saw one, a Rumpler, spin out of control.〔 * On 9 February, with 2nd Lieutenant Herbert Henry Hartley, he claimed an Albatros D.V shot down over Guise.〔 * On 16 March 1918, over Bellicourt-Bellenglise with Lieutenant P. Burrows, he claimed another D.V and a DFW C.〔 On 26 March Herring was severely wounded during a dogfight,〔 and returned to England on 4 April. On 23 January 1919 he was injured again in a flying accident.〔 As a result of his injuries Herring finally relinquished his commission on 15 July 1919.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Herring (RAF officer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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