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Clipped Signature - Mike Donnet. - Cranston Military Prints

Clipped Signature - Mike Donnet.


Clipped Signature - Mike Donnet.

A Belgian pilot who escaped German captivity to score 3 victories with No.69 Sqn RAF before leading No.350 (Belgian) Squadron. He flew 30 missions over the D-Day beaches in Spitfires and stayed in the Belgian Air Force after the war. He died in 2013.
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Donnet, Mike

Died : 2013
Lieutenant General Avi Baron Mike Donnet CVO DFC FRAeS (deceased)
One of Belgiums most distinguished fighter pilots, Mike Donnet led 350 (Belgian) Squadron Spitfires over the D-Day beaches just before dawn, as the invasion was going in. He returned to the beachhead during the day and then finally at sunset. In all he flew 30 sorties over the beaches during the Normandy campaign. Originally a member of the Belgian Air Force, Donnet was captured by the Germans in May 1940 but subsequently made a daring escape to England by air in July 1941. Flying with 69 Squadr
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Depicting the No.19 Sqn Spitfire Mk.IIA of Flt Lt Walter Lawson attacking a Bf.109 E-4 of JG.3 in the Summer of 1940. The final tally of Lawson before he was listed as missing in August 1941 was 6 confirmed, 1 shared, 3 probables and 1 damaged. The Bf.109 shown here was flown by Oberleutnant Franz von Werra. He survived this encounter, but was shot down over Kent in September 1940.

Flt Lt Walter Lawson by Ivan Berryman. 		A solo spitfire flies through the clouds over southern England.

Give Us Spitfires by Ivan Berryman. 		Fighter Ace Johnnie Johnson leads MkIX Spitfires of his No.144 Canadian Wing back to their base at Ford after a long day of operations over Normandy shortly after D-Day. The wing flew constant fighter sweeps throughout the Normandy Invasions, before relocating to France on June 15th 1944.
Dawn Till Dusk by Richard Taylor. 		Flew Spitfires in command of No.602 Sqn during the Battle of Britain before serving in the Middle East and then in Malta with No.229 Sqn and No.249 Sqn. A successful author after the war, he died in 2000 aged 84.

Clipped Signature - Sandy Johnstone.
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Lieutenant General Avi Baron Mike Donnet CVO DFC FRAeS (deceased)
Died : 2013
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Donnet, Mike
(Lieutenant General Avi Baron Mike Donnet CVO DFC FRAeS (deceased))

One of Belgiums most distinguished fighter pilots, Mike Donnet led 350 (Belgian) Squadron Spitfires over the D-Day beaches just before dawn, as the invasion was going in. He returned to the beachhead during the day and then finally at sunset. In all he flew 30 sorties over the beaches during the Normandy campaign. Originally a member of the Belgian Air Force, Donnet was captured by the Germans in May 1940 but subsequently made a daring escape to England by air in July 1941. Flying with 69 Squadron he scored three victories before taking command of 350 Squadron. After Normandy Donnet was in action against the V1s and the retreating German ground forces, as well as providing air cover for the Arnhem operation. In October 1944 he took command of the Hawkinge Wing of Spitfires. He rose to high command in the postwar Belgian Air Force. Mike Donnett died on 31st July 2013.
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