They called him a “headline hero” – a guy always out for glory, a guy who was always getting his photograph in the papers.

Then, on one routine mission, his luck ran out. With his Spitfire riddled with German bullets, he parachuted from a flaming cockpit to the desert sands below. Nothing would ever be quite so glorious for him again…

Story: RA Montague

Art: Arias

Cover: Jeff Bevan