John Dowling (pilot)
(1923-2000)
Royal Air Force officer
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Wing Commander John Reginald Dowling, MBE, DFC & Bar, AFC (5 July 1923 – July 2000) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer and helicopter pilot famous for placing the spire of the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral on 22 April 1962. He was a Lancaster bomber pilot during the Second World War, and the author of RAF Helicopters: The First Twenty Years, a comprehensive overview of the RAF's early helicopters and their uses.
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5 July 1923 Manchester, England
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July 2000 (aged 76)
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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