"Britain's finest dive bomber pilot"
Wing Commander Arthur Gill from Little Dewchurch has been described as "Britain's finest dive bomber pilot", has survived 17 crash and forced landings and has flown more than 140 different types of planes including Concorde.
He flew the Vultee Vengeance - a plane which would go into vertical dive causing the pilot and crew to blackout before pulling out just 3 thousand feet above the ground. So how does a man who led 15 hundred operations during the Burma Campaign and is the sole survivor of the 450 men on his squadron mark such a special day? He's been talking to our reporter Nicola Goodwin.....