He could have known my father, actually (also a navigator who signed up with the RCAF at Windsor, Ontario), but I think Dad would have mentioned meeting B. Rathbone's son. The one celebrity I remember him mentioning is Terence Rattigan. "On the trip I played many games of chess with a commissioned gunner (most were sergeants) in our squadron, Terence Rattigan. He was an English playwright who wrote “French Without Tears” before the war, and “Flare Path” after it had started. I had seen and greatly enjoyed the latter, in London. I knew him only as Terry until I learned, half way through our voyage, that he was the well-known playwright. Before then I was able to win about a third of our chess games. After learning of his celebrity I never beat him again."