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Art Donahue
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Gerald "Art" Donahue DFC (29 January 1913 – 11 September 1942) was an American fighter pilot who volunteered to fly for the British Royal Air Force in World War II. He was one of 11 American〔(Battle of Britain - Roll of Honour )〕 pilots who flew with RAF Fighter Command between 10 July and 31 October 1940, thereby qualifying for the Battle of Britain clasp to the 1939–45 campaign star. He was killed in action in September 1942.
==Early life==
Donahue was born to Frank and Ada Donahue in 1913 and was raised on a dairy farm near St. Charles, Minnesota.〔 He learned to fly as a teenager at the Conrad Flying Service, operated by Max Conrad, an aviator known as the "Flying Grandfather" who had set numerous world records for distance and endurance. Becoming Minnesota's youngest commercially certificated pilot at the age of 19, Donahue helped Conrad helping to run the flight school until he left to enlist in the Royal Air Force.〔 He traveled to Canada, claimed to be Canadian, and was accepted.〔(Battle of Britain pilots biographies )〕
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