Most people would consider losing both legs a career-ending catastrophe, especially if that career involved flying fighter ...

Douglas Bader lost both legs in a flying accident, but refused to let that end his career. With prosthetics, Hurricanes, and ...

The night the legs arrived everyone had a big time. When the Germans captured Wing Commander Douglas Bader, D.S.O., they had been amazed at the gallantry of this boy, with no legs of his own, whose ...

RAF legend Douglas Bader, a double amputee, heroically returned to combat flying during the Battle of Britain despite his artificial limbs. An anecdote from fellow pilot Hugh Dundas recounts Bader's ...

“I propose that Douglas Bader be prohibited from ever stepping into an aircraft again. Such men as he—and there are many like him—are too valuable to England. . . . The race should be allowed to keep ...

Douglas Bader: fight for the sky; the story of the Spitfire and the Hurricane, by Douglas Bader. With special contributions and help from Max Aitken [and others] Photo research by John Moore ...