Air Commodore Ted Sismore, who has died aged 90, was recognised as the RAF’s finest low-level navigator of the Second World War, leading “daylight spectaculars” on targets including three separate Gestapo headquarters and on Goering and Goebbels themselves. Read his obituary on the Telegraph.
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