Dambusters hero

THE excellent articles marking the 75th anniversary of the dambusters’ raid have reminded me of the times I met Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb.

a kind, generous man, he believed the most humane way to conduct warfare was to develop weapons that would end conflict as quickly as

possible. He designed airships, worked on the Wellington bomber and devised the Tallboy bomb that sank the German Tirpitz battleship.

He spoke movingly of the crews who never returned and when given a large sum of money after the war, in gratitude for his contribution, he used it to set up a foundation for the education of the sons of RAF personnel.

Why is there no statue in London to celebrate this great man? CLIVE NELSON-SINGER,

Beare Green, Surrey.