RAF fighter hero Derrick Grubb may have been shot down, captured, tortured by the Nazis and forced on the infamous Death March but toasting his 100th birthday, the veteran insisted he had "always been lucky".
The Second World War squadron leader marked his milestone at a gala lunch with family, friends and current members of the RAF, laid on by veterans support group Project 71.
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