Air Commodore Arthur Steele †

Air Commodore Arthur Steele, who has died aged 88, was captain of a Valiant bomber during Operation Grapple, the testing of Britain’s first thermonuclear weapon (the H-bomb) in the South Pacific in 1957. Read his obituary on the Telegraph.

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