Hector MacLean

Hector MacLean

Wing Commander Hector MacLean was a Battle of Britain fighter pilot [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/08/28/db2801.xml Wing Commander Hector MacLean - Telegraph ] ] .

After suffering a severe injury in combat [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/11_november/13/flying_scots_warandconflict.shtml BBC - Press Office - Flying Scots War & Conflict ] ] , losing a foot in August 1940, he became a fighter controller and scrambled the intercept when Rudolph Hess made his lone flight to Scotland in 1941. He joined his family's law firm after the war and in 1999 wrote 'Fighters in Defence, Memories of the Glasgow Squadron.' One of the longest lived Battle of Britain veterans, he died in 2007 aged 93 [ [http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=1247592007 Scotsman.com News ] ] .

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