"Captain Donald MacIntosh DFC. Former Bomber Command and commercial pilot. Born 28 May, 1922 in Glasgow. Died 10 January, 2019 in Perth, aged 96 Donald MacIntosh’s first real taste of the Second World War was as an 18-year-old police cadet caught up in the Clydebank Blitz in 1941. Unexploded incendiaries landed outside the station door, the muster room became a morgue, gas mains blazed and back home his widowed mother cheerfully swept up broken glass from the windows blown in by a landmine. He cursed the Germans and two months later, on his 19th birthday, requested release from his reserved occupation to take up aircrew duties, a move that would take him to the heart of the fight with the enemy and a mission to destroy one of their most iconic weapons – the feared battleship Tirpitz. MacIntosh, an Inverness-shire policeman’s son who left school at 14 and became a police telephone operator, first took to the air in a Tiger Moth bi-plane. He trained in Florida in a Stearman, graduating to the Harvard and on returning to Britain completed further training before being posted to IX(B) Squadron at Bardney, Lincolnshire." www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-captain-donald-macintosh-dfc-former-bomber-command-and-commercial-pilot-part-of-squadron-that-sank-the-tirpiz-1-4873875