Matt Braddock
Matt Braddock | |
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D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd | |
First appearance | 1952 |
In-story information | |
Team affiliations | Royal Air Force, United Kingdom |
Abilities | Master pilot, skilled boxer, champion level darts player. |
Matt Braddock,
Braddock was known for his fearless nature, superb piloting skills and no-nonsense attitude. He had no time for petty rules and regulations, and remained at the rank of
Braddock was so highly regarded that he had
Some of Braddock's more outstanding exploits included:
- Sinking a U-boat with a rocket-armed Mosquito fighter-bomber.
- Bombing Peenemünde, severely setting back German rocketry experiments.
- Successfully traversing the Alps to attack an Italian port, after the entire raid had been scrubbed due to hazardous weather.
- Shooting down a German fighter with a flare gun.
- Sinking the Degen, a German bomb aimer. Braddock himself took the responsibility of dropping the bomb, and managed to score a direct hit with the naked eye.
I Flew With Braddock also included some genuine episodes in the British bomber offensive against Germany e.g. the
Braddock, in addition to his piloting abilities, was a skilled boxer and champion level darts player. In the stories set in the pre-war period, he is portrayed as a steeplejack who took flying lessons and then joined the auxiliary air force.
The author of these stories was not clearly stated (I Flew With Braddock just gave the author as "George Bourne", the fictional narrator) but is believed to be Gilbert Lawford Dalton.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Denis Gifford, Encyclopedia of Comic Characters, Longman, 1987, p. 33