Despite being awarded the DFC and AFC, he was famous as being the face of a recruitment campaign to encourage people to join the Royal Air Force.

He was giving a display for war correspondents when an RAF photographer asked him to turn around and look at the roof of the Nissen Hut he had just left.

[6] After many sorties over northern France against a variety of German aircraft, he received news in early May 1940, that his brother, a Whitley pilot, was listed as missing.

[7] Parrott was allowed home on leave on 17 May 1940, and whilst there, he received a telegram telling him to report to No.

[9] In August 1940, Parrott shot down a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka bomber that had been attacking convoys off the coast of England.

43 Sqn, who were operating from Capodichino, near Naples in Italy, and he was promoted to squadron leader a few days after his arrival.

In 1973, Colonel Gaddafi instructed Parrott to fly to Uganda and pick-up Idi Amin, who was to be a mediator in the Arab-Israeli War.

On arrival at Entebbe Airport, Parrott and his colleagues were detained and interrogated, as the Ugandan authorities thought they were mercenaries.

[18] Parrott married Mary Dunning in 1948, who during the war was in the WAAF and had been posted to the Y station at RAF Chicksands.

[19] The collection sold for £200,000, and the auction house handling the sale of the medals described as Parrott as someone who "..did more in 1940, aged just 19, than most people experience in a lifetime.