Ah yes, the wartime veterans.....most of us old gits will have had the pleasure of knowing some amazing characters.
Heathrow was full of interesting people when I was there as an ATCA...as was everywhere else I went on my cadetship.
Names like Paddy Haycock (EGLL), John Clark (EGPF) Peter Ward Hunt (EGVW).....there was an EFCA there called George, who had spent the war with the Norwegian whaling fleet in the South Atlantic....he taught me to swear in Norwegian I remember and nearly got me killed once when I was doing a runway inspection (bless him)