Ralph Cochrane
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane, was a Scottish aviator and Royal Air Force officer, perhaps best known for his role in Operation Chastise, the famous "Dambusters" raid.
Air Vice Marshal Cochrane in 1943
Air Vice-Marshal Ralph Cochrane, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, King George VI and Group Captain John Whitworth discussing the Dambusters Raid in May 1943
Cochrane, centre wearing cap, talks with aircrew returned from a bombing raid, 1944
Don Bennett
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Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett, was an Australian aviation pioneer and bomber pilot who rose to be the youngest air vice marshal in the Royal Air Force. He led the "Pathfinder Force"
Ralph Cochrane
…spectacular raids. Cochrane commanded the Dam-Busters raid. There was intense, sometimes openly hostile, rivalry between Cochrane and Air Vice Marshal Don Bennett, who saw Cochrane's experimentation with low-level target marking through 617 Squadron in 1944 as a direct threat to his own specialist squadrons…
Air Vice Marshal Don Bennett c. 1943–44