Courageous RAF veteran who survived all of the Second World War and helped cripple Nazis' nuclear weapon plan dies, aged 99 AN RAF veteran who fought throughout the Second World War and was involved in the effort to cripple the Nazis’ nuclear weapons programme has died, aged 99. Heroic Charles Eldred, of Waterlooville, risked his life throughout the battle against the Germans to deliver devastating blows to the Third Reich’s ambitions to dominate the world. He volunteered to join the RAF as a teenager in 1939, eventually becoming a navigator on Lancaster bombers with 83 [Squadron](/topic/squadron) . Despite having been...