Shropshire war hero who was still flying in his centenary year dies aged 102
A war hero who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and walked away from three crashes, has died just weeks before his 103rd birthday.
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John Trotman, from Marchamley Wood near Market Drayton, flew two tours of operations with Bomber Command during the WWII.
John's first wartime tour of operations had been in Wellington bombers with 150 Squadron based at RAF Snaith in Yorkshire, taking part in bombing raids on many heavily-defended German cities.
The odds were against surviving even one tour, but he went on to do a second tour, this time in the wooden Mosquitos of 692 Squadron, based at RAF Graveley near Cambridge, which were part of the elite Pathfinder Force.
His exploits were recounted in a 2011 autobiography 'J For Johnnie' which was a collaboration with Telford author Ken Ballantyne.
