John (Jack) Costello was an ATCO at Luton when I started. Didn't say much about the war but I gather he was in the Royal Artillery and evacuated off the beaches at Dunkirk. Back in Blighty 'was bored' and transferred to RAF.
Only remember two stories.
As an instructor on Wellingtons, student opened up too quickly on take off and aircraft shot off the side heading towards the control tower.
"What did you do, Jack?"
Sucks on pipe . . .
"Do? Do? What do you think I did? I retracted the undercarriage of course."
He flew an Anson during the Berlin Airlift, checking the Eureka beacons at the Berlin airfields. They wouldn't give him a gap in the landing stream so fitted in visually in between.
I am sure I must have known others.
Great idea this thread.