Hugh Verity, was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and later a "special duties" squadron pilot working with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. He landed many times at clandestine airfields in occupied France to insert and extract SOE agents. He was decorated for gallantry five times.
Hugh Verity – a late-wartime or postwar photograph
Beaufighter Mk IF (B-RO) of No. 29 Squadron.
Westland Lysander Mk III (SD), the type used for special missions into occupied France during World War II.
Jim McCairns, Hugh Verity, Percy Pickard, Peter Vaughan-Fowler and Bunny Rymills with Verity's Lysander in 1943.
The Westland Lysander is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft that was used immediately before and during the Second World War.
Westland Lysander
Westland Lysander Mk.III (SD) in overall black camouflage as used for special night missions into occupied France during World War II.
Lysander Mk.IIIAs of No. 1433 Flight RAF, over Madagascar in December 1942.
Lysander in Italy evacuating an American OSS officer.