Death
Flight Lieutenant Donahue was killed in action on 11 September 1942, while a member of No. 91 Squadron. Attempting to intercept a Ju 88 his plane was hit by return fire and ditched in the English Channel. Donahue once wrote in a letter to his parents, "My life may not be long, but it will be wide." He is commemorated on the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede in Surrey, England.
Donahue wrote two books, Tally-Ho! Yankee in a Spitfire and Last Flight from Singapore about his service in the RAF.
Read more about this topic: Art Donahue, Royal Air Force Service
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