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\\u201c\'Stay low, stay on track, and stay alive\' was the motto of the RAF\'s most secret Station, Tempsford. That\'s exactly what Geoffrey Rothwell did \\u2012 DFC & Bar, 1939-45 Star, Aircrew Europe Star with France/Germany Clasp, Defence Medal, Victory Medal, Order of Leopold II & Palme, Croix de Guerre 1940 & Palme, Bomber Command Medal, POW medal, La L\\xe9gion d\\u2019honneur \\u2012 from Bomber Command via SOE to Stalag and back.\\u201d

In episode 53 I talked to Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell about the SOE agent Diana Rowden. After we had stopped recording Gabrielle told me about her husband Geoffrey Rothwell, was the last surviving pilot for SOE during the war. At the time she was in the process of checking through a biography of Geoff\\u2019s experiences.

Sadly since then Geoff has passed away, but Gabrielle has managed to complete the book recounting his life and wartime experiences and its been released, the title is \\u2018Last Man Standing\\u2019.

In this bonus episode of the podcast I talk to Gabrielle about Geoff\\u2019s life.