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He was also the only Singapore-born Chinese pilot to fly with the RAF in the Battle of Normandy. During the operation, which spanned more than two months from June to August 1944, his plane was shot down over Paris. Mr Tan narrowly survived (no thanks to a faulty parachute) and was eventually captured by German forces, who took him to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Mr Tan then escaped the camp by jumping off a train, foraging for food in forests for three days before being rescued by American troops who then sent him back to England. Following this, he continued training and was sent to India to fight against Japanese forces, but they surrendered before he went back into action.