Hugh Verity

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Hugh Beresford Verity (6 April 1918, Jamaica - 14 November 2001) was a Royal Air Force officer of the Second World War.

At the start of the war he joined a reconnaissance squadron, and in 1941 he joined the RAF's arm of the Special Operations Executive. In 1943, he took command of a section of Lysanders as No. 161 Squadron RAF. Under this title, he led several night flights to drop and pick up resistance workers, SOE agents and other figures at secret locations in France. Among his passengers were Jean Moulin and François Mitterrand. In 1978, Verity wrote up his war memoirs as We landed by moonlight (original edition published by Ian Allan Ltd, London, 1978 ; revised edition, Manchester, Crecy Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-947554-75-0).

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