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The WW2 aircrews who dropped secret agents into Europe

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Katy Prickett

BBC News, Essex

Chris Bullock handout Black and white image of a World War Two era Stirling aeroplane flying through the air. It is making a drop of military material and equipment, which are flying out behind it on white parachutes. Chris Bullock handout

Stirling bombers were adapted to drop supplies to agents behind enemy lines while flying between 500 to 600 feet (152 to 182m) above ground

In the last months of World War Two, aircrews from an…

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