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David Henry Gason Ince DFC (23 March 1921 - 2 August 2017) was a Royal Air Force pilot of the Second World War in Typhoons who flew nearly 150 sorties and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He flew the only raid in Europe to use Napalm. In 1958 he flew an Olympia 419 glider from Lavenham, Suffolk, to Land's End, a distance of 315 miles and a UK glider distance record at the time.