Don Bennett
Politician
1910 – 1986
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Who was Don Bennett?
Air Vice-Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett CB CBE DSO RAF 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" 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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- Born
- Sep 14, 1910
Toowoomba - Also known as
- Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Sep 15, 1986
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on July 23, 2013
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