Don Bennett
Royal Air Force air marshals
Died when: 76 years 1 days (912 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett, CB, CBE, DSO (14 September 1910 – 15 September 1986) was an Australian aviation pioneer and bomber pilot who rose to be the youngest air vice marshal in the Royal Air Force.
He led the "Pathfinder Force" (No. 8 Group RAF) from 1942 to the end of the Second World War in 1945.He has been described as "one of the most brilliant technical airmen of his generation: an outstanding pilot, a superb navigator who was also capable of stripping a wireless set or overhauling an engine".
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