One of the last surviving members of Bomber Command has told the extraordinary story of his heroic wartime service for the first time aged 104. Former pilot Colin Bell recalls in a new memoir how his station commander refused to ground his squadron of Mosquito fighter-bomber aircraft despite the manufacturer warning it had to fix a potential engine fault. When asked what would happen if the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines failed on take-off, the commander replied in stark terms: ‘You die like an officer and a gentleman.’ Mr Bell also reveals that, rather than carrying a teddy bear as a mascot...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
