Henry Lafont - Free French WWII Pilot

Posted on 14th November, 2022

Brian Cushing, 2022

 

At about 12:40pm on 29 October 1940 a French pilot called Henry Lafont made a forced landing in a Hawker Hurricane in a field close to Teston and the River Medway.

 

Read here about this last surviving French veteran of the Battle of Britain, his amazing escape to Gilbraltar, and his life in the wartime RAF.