Operation "Bograt": From France To Burma (1990) By Donald Stones
 
Don Stones joined the RAF on a short service commission in May 1939 as a fighter pilot. Following receiving his wings, he qualified on Hurricanes. He served in France with No. 79 Squadron, where he was credited with 5 confirmed victories. After the fall of France, the squadron withdrew to England.

He was also very active during the Battle of Britain but a hit by a Bf109, and the hard landing in September made him being admitted to the hospital. In July 1941, he was posted to Malta and remained there until he was sent to Egypt in April 1942 as an instructor. The following month, he was posted to India to take command of no. 155 Squadron, but was taken off the unit later that year after a dispute and court-martial with a provost officer. Subsequently, he joined no. 67 Squadron in January 1943, but was wounded as a result of return fire during a deep penetration into enemy territory to bomb a Japanese fighter base at Kangaung, 260 miles inside Burma. This incident ended his operational career, and he the rest of the war, he was a test pilot.

After the war, Stones joined the Colonial Service as a District Officer and magistrate, serving in Kenya, Tanganyika and Malaya until the mid-fifties. During the Malayan Emergency, he unofficially took to the air again, piloting a light aircraft from Perak Flying Club on leaflet dropping missions over the jungle.

Following Malayan independence, he returned briefly to the U.K. to farm in the West Country before going back to Africa and establishing an agency for British, European and American aviation companies. He personally demonstrated many of the aircraft himself and, in spite of coup d’etats and other obstacles, remained there until the mid-seventies, selling, among other aircraft, MB. 326 jet trainers to the Ghanaian and Zambian Air Forces.
 
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128 pages
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