Percy Charles Pickard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPercy Charles Pickard
RAF officer
Date of Birth: 16-May-1915
Place of Birth: Handsworth, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 18-Feb-1944
Profession: airman
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Percy Charles Pickard
- Group Captain Percy Charles "Pick" Pickard, (16 May 1915 – 18 February 1944) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
- He served as a pilot and commander and was one of the only officers of the RAF to be awarded the DSO three times in the Second World War.
- He flew over a hundred sorties and distinguished himself in a variety of operations requiring coolness under fire.
- In 1941 he participated in the making of the 1941 wartime film Target for To-night, which made him a public figure in England.
- He led the squadron of Whitley bombers that carried paratroopers to their drop for the Bruneval raid.
- Throughout 1943 he flew the Lysander on nighttime missions into occupied France for the SOE, performing insertions of agents and picking up personnel from very small landing strips.
- Pickard led a group of Mosquitos on the Amiens raid, in which he was killed in action 18 February 1944.
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