Hector MacLean

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Wing Commander Hector MacLean was a Battle of Britain fighter pilot ^[1].

After suffering a severe injury in combat ^[2], losing a foot in August 1940, he became a fighter controller and scrambled the intercept when Rudolph Hess made his lone flight to Scotland in 1941. He joined his family's law firm after the war and in 1999 wrote 'Fighters in Defence, Memories of the Glasgow Squadron.' One of the longest lived Battle of Britain veterans, he died in 2007 aged 93 ^[3].