| Description Summary | Ivan Mitchell, navigator, pilot and founder of Command and Staff College talks about his early life, joining the Air Force, training and meeting his wife in Canada. He details the journey from Canada to NZ with his family, his career after the war, his experience riding in parade at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, his work in Australia and details the viewing of a nuclear test at Maralinga in South Australia. He explains in detail the origins the Air Force Staff College and the work he put in to its development and subsequant success and explains his experience of the allied invasion of North Africa. |