The healing hands of benny goodman Since we used to be in the same business, albeit at very different levels, I got to know Group Captain JR (Benny) Goodman quite well and interviewed him several times at his lovely home in Frogmore.

From: Herald Express (Torquay UK) | Date: October 3, 2007 | Copyright information

Since we used to be in the same business, albeit at very different levels, I got to know Group Captain JR (Benny) Goodman quite well and interviewed him several times at his lovely home in Frogmore.

We both had orchestral nicknames - I still get Christmas cards addressed to Artie Shaw - and discovered we were on at least two bombing raids together in 1944. Benny leading from the front as a Pathfinder master bomber with me as far back as you could go, several hundred Lancasters behind....

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