Talk:Sailor Malan

Malan

The description of the history of the Malan surname's origins are not relevant to this article. I will add a See also including a link to the Huguenot article (that now includes the note originally used here). --Deon Steyn 12:04, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes clearly South Africans are still concerned with race. Anyway, Malan could just as easily be an English name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.76.72.199 (talk) 14:03, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Barking Creek

Regarding the battle of Barking Creek: John Freeborn had this to say about Malan: "...I was very sorry about it, but it was Sailor Malan’s fault. He gave us the order to attack and we attacked. I think I would have shot down more [Hurricanes] if it weren’t for Hawkins [another 74 Squadron pilot]. He got in the way and I was shouting at him to get out of the bloody way, to either shoot or let me shoot. But then he said, “It’s one of ours.” When the adrenaline is running, you don’t realize these things at the time. When we landed, George Sampson [the squadron commander] was waiting and Byrne and I were placed under close arrest. As for Malan, no one could find him. He’d gone off somewhere and dropped us right in the shit. But we were acquitted because we had two of the greatest barristers ever and they took Malan to pieces, said he was a downright liar."

source:http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/John-Freeborn-1919-2010.html

POV

The statement that "The National Party ensured that the memory of the Springbok Legion, Torch Commando and of Sailor Malan was purged from history because there was a fear that young Afrikaners in particular might want to emulate Malan' is POV, unverifiable, and most certainly false. I have read a number of accounts of Sailor Malan in apartheid era South African military magazines. The Torch Commando was not ignored either, though it was represented (correctly) as a far left radical organization.101.98.188.150 (talk) 08:40, 19 November 2014 (UTC)