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Michael Penny is the archetypal British spitfire pilot – debonair, brave and with a devil-may-care attitude towards matters of life and death.

He’d flown many missions during the course of the war, and can recall exactly where he was when the war came to an end.

It was, rather suitably, a pub in Portsmouth, with a glass of rum in hand as Churchill came over the air. He also explained to Â鶹Éç Somerset’s Matt Faulkner about the easy transition he made to civilian life – and whether it was worth lying about his age to get into the RAF in the first place.

Image: Michael Penny