George Dunn, a British Royal Air Force officer, died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 103.
Born in Whitstable, Kent, on September 21, 1922, he joined the Royal Air Force in June 1941 at the age of 17 and trained first as a wireless operator and air gunner before retraining as a pilot in Canada. During the Second World War, he flew 44 missions for Bomber Command, including 30 in Handley Page Halifax bombers over industrial Germany and 14 in De Havilland Mosquito bombers over Berlin.
He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1943 and later received the Legion d’Honneur. He died at home in Rottingdean, East Sussex.
George Dunn, 103, British air force officer.