So sad to hear of the loss of another Second World War veteran who I was lucky enough to spend time with.

Steve Stevens DFC completed 30 raids above occupied Europe.

Unusually he left a voice recording from 1943 about a particular raid.

Check this short video out to listen to him in his own words. https://www.facebook.com/HistoryHit/videos/1793760054022378/?vh=e

While I was with him he showed me one of his most treasured pieces of correspondence. A letter from the father of one his crewmen who had been killed.

He calls Steve, 'skipper', "as that is how John I've used to talk of you."

It is one of the most important and moving wartime letters I had ever read.

He remembers the "pals killed at my side," in the First World War. "But it is altogether different when it come to your own."

"Happy landings always."

Steve's prayer in the front page of his Bible; he muttered it to himself each time before taking off on ops.

Here he is telling his tale. https://tv.historyhit.com/watch/30755757