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Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
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Walter Dawson
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He was the last Royal Air Force commander in Palestine, before the creation of the State of Israel. Dawson joined the Royal Air Force as a boy mechanic in 1919. He served in the Second World War on the air staff at Royal Air Force Middle East and then in the Directorate of Plans at the Air Ministry.
He continued his war service as Station Commander at Royal Air Force Street Eval from 1942, Director of Operations (Naval Company-operation) from 1943 and Director of Plans from 1944.
After the war he was made Air Officer Commanding AHQ Levant at a difficult time when the State of Israel was being established. He was appointed Commandant of the School of Land/Air Warfare in 1948 and then served as Senior Royal Air Force Instructor at the Imperial Defence College from 1950 before becoming Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Policy) in 1952.
He died on 10 June 1994. Dawson"s Field in Jordan, where the Dawson"s Field hijackings took place, is named after him.
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June 10, 1994 (aged 92)