Rising stars of wartime Britain.(News)

From: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) | Date: February 26, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: By Ray Marshall

Rising stars of wartime Britain

THEY probably caused as much trouble to Hitler's bombing raids over Britain as the Spitfires and Hurricanes put together and they may have saved thousands of lives in the process.

They were barrage balloons and the man who helped to get them off the ground died this week.

Professor Tom Willmore, of Durham University, a leader in the field of differential geometry, was aged ...

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