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Strong nerves the man had.

In the critic Frank Kermode's memoirs, I find "Later we had Seafires, the naval adaptation of the Spitfire, which despite the adaptation had a very high landing speed, and the sight of Seafires toppling into the sea was almost commonplace." I wonder whether Brown ever had to be fished out. To be sure, Kermode served on an escort carrier.