# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-vale
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:03:10.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-vale"
name: "William Vale"
slug: "william-vale"
description: "William \"Cherry\" Vale, was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. He was credited with 30 enemy aircraft shot down, shared in the destruction of three others, and claimed 6 damaged and another two shared damaged. His 20 kills achieved while flying the Hawker Hurricane and his 10 with the Gloster Gladiator made him the second highest scoring Hurricane and biplane pilot in the RAF, in both cases after Marmaduke Pattle."
tagline: "British flying ace (1914-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Cherry_Vale.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1914-06-03"
deathDate: "1981-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.97
  momentum:             1.292134831460674
  historical:           6.347805333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7%E9%9F%8B%E7%88%BE"
    title: "威廉·韋爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ويليام ڤال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vale"
    title: "William Vale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vale"
    title: "William Vale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vale"
    title: "William Vale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%84_%EB%B2%A0%EC%9D%BC"
    title: "윌리엄 베일"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Вэйл, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8019662"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump