Description Canadian-born Flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893-1976) served in Britain\'s air forces for twenty-eight years.
It was in Egypt and Libya in 1940-41, during the Britain\'s Western Desert campaign, that he demonstrated the tenets of an effective air-ground cooperation syst.
When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a Royal Air Force group in Egypt.
As a pilot in World War I he was credited with sixty-one confirmed kills on the Western Front.
Description Canadian-born Flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893-1976) served in Britain\'s air forces for twenty-eight years