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Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett CB CBE DSO RAF (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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  • Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett CB CBE DSO RAF (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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  • 1930(xsd:integer)
  • 1940(xsd:integer)
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  • 1910-09-14(xsd:date)
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  • Don
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  • Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett
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  • Bennett as an Air Vice Marshall
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  • 1986-09-15(xsd:date)
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  • 1942(xsd:integer)
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  • Director of British South American Airways
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  • Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett
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  • Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett CB CBE DSO RAF (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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