Hurricane Pilot Who Became a Gestapo Agent

Tucked away in the archives of the Museum for Transport and Technology in Berlin is an old photograph of a Hawker Hurricane on public display. The image must have been taken before the night of 23/24 November 1943, when the museum and the greater part of its collection – including the Hurricane – were destroyed in a RAF bombing raid.The aircraft in the photograph bore a squadron commander’s pennan...