If you had brown skin, you had to polish your boots a bit harder.

Wearing my country's shirt was quite special.

If he hadn't got the engine started, we'd all have died.

I can't quite remember what it felt like to be released.

I'm a more confident person, in the best possible way.

Turns out his father had rescued my father 50 years ago.

The first jet bombers were coming in.

As soon as we got off the ground I felt elated.

Exposed to the greatest danger, he refused to back down.

We attached candles to hydrogen balloons.

My father threw his medals into the Thames

They didn't realize I'd been flying the aircraft.