The Pathfinder - Donald Bennett

[Eric Mc]

Interesting documentary on BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ghdnl/The_...

[topsparks]

His Daughter is one of my customers,struck up a conversation when she saw my RAFA charity box,she still has the cutlery her mother bought for The British South American Airways he ran.She can still remember selling tickets out of a tent at Heathrow,just after the war!

[Rower]

I listened to that and am still imagining him wearing a pin stripe suit and a trilby hat landing one of his planes with 2 engines out !!

[Simpo Two]

You can buy his book 'Pathfinder' too:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pathfinder-war-autobiograp...

It was the first book I read after 'leaving home' at the tender age of 11.