Bill Ash

William Franklin Ash MBE (30 November 1917 – 26 April 2014), most commonly known as Bill Ash, was an American-born British writer and Marxist, who served as a fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. He was shot down, made a prisoner of war, and was noted as an escaper.

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