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Michael Dillon Lyne, (23 March 1919 – 21 December 1997) was a senior

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officer.

RAF career

Lyne was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 29 July 1939. He served in the

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as officer commanding the Air Gunnery School in

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and on the Air Staff at Headquarters RAF Mediterranean and Middle East. After the war he became officer commanding, No. 54 Squadron in 1946, chief flying instructor at the RAF Flying College at

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in 1954 and officer commanding,

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in 1958. He went on to be air attaché in

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in 1961, commandant of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1963 and Air Officer Commanding, No. 23 Group in 1965. After that he became senior member of the RAF Directing Staff at the Imperial Defence College in 1968 and Director-General of RAF Training in 1970 before retiring in 1971.

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