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Ep.10: Remembering Air Vice-Marshal Don Bennett and the Pathfinder Force

Season 1, Ep. 10
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I had been looking forward to this conversation for quite a while. I'm talking with Queensland Air Museum volunteer, author, historian and all-round gentleman, Ian Campbell, who beavers away each week, poring over documents and items in the QAM Don Bennett/Pathfinder Force collection - sorting, cataloguing and preserving this unique and priceless archive.


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