David Lee (RAF officer)

Sir David Lee
Born	(1912-09-04)4 September 1912 Companion of the Order of the Bath

and a senior commander in the 1950s and early 1960s.

RAF career

Educated at

After the War he joined the Directing Staff at the

Family

In 1938 he married Denise Hartoch; they had a son and a daughter.[1]

Books

Lee wrote three official histories of the RAF overseas:

• Flight from the Middle East: A history of the Royal Air Force in the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent territories 1945–1972, HMSO 1980
• Eastward: A history of the Royal Air Force in the Far East 1945–1972, HMSO 1984
• Wings in the Sun: A history of the Royal Air Force in the Mediterranean 1945–1986, HMSO Books 1989

He also wrote two accounts of his own time in the RAF:

• Never Stop the Engine when it's Hot, Thomas Harmsworth Publishing 1983 – recounting his time as a junior officer flying Westland Wapitis between the wars on the NorthWest Frontier of India
• ...And We Thought the War Was Over, Thomas Harmsworth Publishing 1991 – about his time as CO of
  P-47 Thunderbolts
  in the Dutch East Indies at the end of World War II

References

Military offices
Preceded by Maurice Heath	Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell 1962–1965	Succeeded by Tim Piper
Preceded by Sir Walter Cheshire	Air Member for Personnel 1965–1968	Succeeded by Sir Andrew Humphrey
Preceded by Sir Nigel Henderson	UK Military Representative to NATO 1968–1971	Succeeded by Sir Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour