Tagged: pilot

The search is on for the mysterious World War II sweetheart of a Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot who was killed in the famous Great Escape. Flt. Lt. Alastair ‘Sandy’ Gunn was shot down over Norway on March 5, 1942, during a mission to photograph...

Doru Davidovici (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdoru daˈvidovit͡ʃʲ]; 1945–1989), was an aviator and writer. Born in Romania in a Jewish family, Doru Davidovici became one of the most loved Romanian fiction writers in the 1980s.[citation needed] During the communist years, his books gave an unusual sense of...