Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Öther Prickett, KCB, DSO, DFC (31 July 1913 – 23 January 2010) was a Royal Air Force bomber pilot in the Second World War and a senior commander in the 1950s and 1960s.
Educated at Haileybury, Prickett initially worked on sugar estates in India before deciding to join the Royal Air Force in 1937.
[1] He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order following a very successful bombing raid on the Peenemünde Army Research Center.
[1] With the Suez Crisis unfolding in autumn 1956, he was appointed Chief of Staff for Operation Musketeer.
[1] The planning for the operation was undertaken in great secrecy over a three-month period in a basement office at the Air Ministry.