RAF pilot Frank Dell’s story of survival in Nazi occupied Holland

As a teenager, Frank saw the Battle of Britain played out in the skies above his village in the south of England. He joined the RAF and piloted a De Havilland Mosquito on bombing raids into Germany. In October 1944 Frank's plane was shot out of the sky and he parachuted into Nazi territory. Frank witnessed extraordinary scenes as he walked his way through the countryside into occupied Holland. It was there he joined the Dutch Resistance, and his war shifted to the fields, hay sheds and village lanes of the Netherlands. Further information Mosquito Down (by Frank Dell with Brett Piper) is published by Fighting High Frank reports he had a huge response to his interview with Richard, first broadcast in November 2014. He was particularly delighted to hear from the son of one of the two Dutch boys who found him in the hayloft, over 70 years ago. 2019 update Frank is now 96 years old and a widower. Earlier this year he was delighted to make a VIP visit to the British Airways flight-deck, for the first time since his retirement 45 years ago.