Keith Truscott

Keith William Truscott, known as Bluey (1916 to 1943), was a Second World War ace fighter pilot and an Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club. After joining the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940 he became the second-highest-scoring Australian ace of the war, credited with 20 confirmed and 5 unconfirmed victories. He completed flying training in Canada, flew Spitfire fighters in Britain, returned to Australia in early 1942 and served in New Guinea, where he fought during the Battle of Milne Bay. He was killed in a joint Australian and American training exercise off the coast of Western Australia in March 1943, aged 26.