“According to my dad, who died in 2013, the artist came to North Killingholme and presented the original painting to the crew. The story goes that as soon as he'd gone, the CO said 'I'm taking that!' ...

On that night’s mission, Abercrombie’s four-engine bomber, an Avro Lancaster with the nose art D for Dog, would carry to the German capital five tons of high explosives and one passenger.