Sir William Stephenson (1896-1989 )

• WWI fighter pilot, WWII spy master
• born on January 11 1896 in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• died January 31 1989 in Bermuda
• during WWI he was a Sergeant in the Canadian Engineers
• was badly wounded during a gas attack in 1916.
• in1917 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps
• shot down 12 planes before he was shot down and captured by the Germans on 28 July 1918
• during WWII he was made head of British Security Coordination, headquartered in New York
• was knighted and received the Presidential Medal for Merit from the United States for his counter-intelligence work during World War II
• portrayed by David Niven in "A Man Called Intrepid"
• books:
  • A Man Called Intrepid, by William Stevenson
  • Intrepid's Last Case, by William Stevenson
  • The True `Intrepid', by Bill MacDonald

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