wets, it could
only have been Ben Benbow!
He was UTP during my basic flying training at RAFC in 1974 and was a breath of fresh air to my fellow students and I - he treated us as fellow pilots, unlike the OT instructor miseries (one of whom accused the late Don Turbitt of having 'un-officer like bone structure...'
)
Ben's tales of his first flying tour in the RAF had us in stitches - it wasn't on Shacklebombers, it was on Beaufighter TT10s at RAF Seletar in about 1959! He spent his time in the back of the Beau operating the target winch, before taking a commission and starting pilot training, followed by a long career on the Shack.