The RAF doctor’s presence on Omaha was accidental ... Flt Lt Rycroft had spent most of the Second World War up to that point as a base medical officer. He was drafted to 21 BDS just days ...

However, In 2021 she received a medical discharge from her beloved role within the RAF. “It was one of the worst days of my life, it was just devastating, it still hurts now,” Mitchell explains.

But only the RAF had the planes able to fly high enough ... from him during the weapons programme have gone missing from his medical file. His son Gareth said: “My father took extreme risks ...

A former RAF medic and RAF corporal will lead Team UK at next year's Invictus Games in the Hague. Rachel Williamson, from Rutland, who was discharged after being injured, will lead the 65-strong team.

He said that when a person is injured in a road accident in Gauteng and treated at a public hospital in the province, the RAF is supposed to pay the provincial government for those medical expenses.