Will Iredale, Colin Bell and Keith Quilter

Journalist and author Will Iredale is joined by two surviving veterans of World War II, Colin Bell and Keith Quilter, to discuss how British pilots fought the war in the skies above Europe and the Far East.

Bell was part of the RAF’s Light Night Striking Force and flew 50 missions over Germany in a Mosquito fighter/bomber — including 13 over Berlin.  Quilter was a Fleet Air Arm naval carrier pilot flying the Corsair, who dive-bombed the German battleship Tirpitz and specialised in low level day light attacks over Japan. For both, the danger was immense and required extraordinary skill and unbelievable courage. The three will discuss dangerous missions over Germany and Japan and tell of hair-raising exploits from 70 or more years ago.

Iredale is a media consultant and former Sunday Times journalist. His first book, The Kamikaze Hunters, told the story of a group of young airmen who fought the Japanese Kamikaze pilots in the Pacific in 1945. He is currently working on a new book on the Pathfinders — the elite squadrons of the RAF Bomber Command.