CC58c Belgian Jet Aircraft RAF cover signed WW2 evader pilot Baron DONNET DFC For Sale

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CC58c Belgian Jet Aircraft RAF cover signed WW2 evader pilot Baron DONNET DFC:
$11.62

JS(CC)58c cover produced by ourselves to commemorate fifty years of jet fighters serving with the Belgian Air Force. The Belgian Air Force was formed from the RAFNos 349 & 350 Squadrons which operated during World War II. The cover artwork by Tony Theobald depicts some of the jet fighters that haveserved with the Belgian Air Force including theHawker Hunter F6 , Gloster Meteor T7 , Republic F-84F Thunderstreak , Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and Dassault-Breguet Mirage 5.

The cover bears Belgiam 17c 50 Years of OTAN/NATO stamp and is cancelled with 50 Years of Belgian Jet aircraftBruxelles 1000 postmark dated 27.3.99 showing Meteor and F-16 jet aircraft.

The cover hasbeen hand signed by Lieutenant General Aviateur Baron Michel Donnet CVO DFC, who delivered the first Belgian Jet aircraft from the UK to Belgium in October 1948 and is often referred to as the father of the Belgian Air Force.

Official special numbered and certified on reverse. Lt General Baron Michel Donnet CVO DFC
Donnet was born in Richmond in 1917, he went to the Belgian Aeromilitary school. When the Germans invaded Belgium in May 1940, Michael Donnet had just completed his training as an officer cadet in the Belgian Air Force. After a desperate one sided battle against the might of the Luftwaffe which ended with Belgium’s surrender, Donnet and his friend Leon Divoy were determined to carry on the fight, -in the air. Under the very noses of the Germans at an ammunition depot in the Foret de Soignes outside Brussels, they discovered a small biplane of ancient vintage apparently immobilised for the duration of the war.Donnet and Divoy repaired the aircraft, collected the petrol and eventually took off for England all within earshot of a German garrison they knew that they only had one chance to get it right.

Donnet and Divoy both became Spitfire pilots in the Royal Air Force and though Divoy crashed in spectacular circumstances and became a prisoner of war for the second time, Donnet became one of the leading RAF fighter pilots of the Second World War. Taking part in fighter operations from continuously from 1942 until VE Day he was accredited with 3 kills and a number of damaged and probables.

Donnet later delivered the very first jet aircraft to the Belgian Air Force.

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CC58c Belgian Jet Aircraft RAF cover signed WW2 evader pilot Baron DONNET DFC

$11.62