| Entry Text: | GIBSON, Donald. Haul Taut and Belay: The Memoirs of a Flying Sailor. 178p., illus. Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount, 1992. ISBN: 187337612X.
He began his merchant career in 1933 and was called up from the RNR in 1939. He swiftly gravitated to the FAA and by 1940 was a fighter pilot first on Ark Royal then on Formidable, including action at the Battle of Matapan. He next took over 802 Squadron on Audacity and survived her sinking. He then went to the US to take charge of the British pilot training programme and stayed in the RN for a distinguished postwar career. |
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