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Gordon Levett

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RAF pilot

United KingdomLived 1921 to 2000 · aged 79
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Gordon Levett was a former Royal Air Force pilot in World War II who volunteered for a covert mission to fly supplies including dismantled fighter planes into the fledgling state of Israel in its 1948 Arab-Israeli War as part of Operation Balak.

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Gordon Levett was a former Royal Air Force pilot in World War II who volunteered for a covert mission to fly supplies including dismantled fighter planes into the fledgling state of Israel in its 1948 Arab-Israeli War as part of Operation Balak. Later Levett joined the first squadron of the newly created Israeli Air Force, helping establish a permanent Israeli military and aiding in the founding of the state of Israel. Levett was the only English gentile pilot in the Israeli Air Force, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is the father of Blythe Masters.

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United Kingdom
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deceased
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Lived 1921 to 2000 · aged 79
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