Wing Commander Hubbard is 36 and lives at St. Leonard's Road. Windsor. His parents live in Gordon' Avenue, Thorpe.

Educated at Norwich Technical College, he entered the Royal Air Force in 1940. In recent years he commanded R.A.F. Station, Shaibah, Iraq. and in 1953 he was appointed personal staff officer to the then Air Member for Personnel, Air Chief Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty. He won the D.F.C. during the war and has since been awarded the O.B.E.

The Valiants are all from No. 49 Squadron based at Wittering .
Northants. Wing Commander Hubbard assumed command of the squadron last September.

The man who dropped the bomb was Flight-Lieut. Alan Washbrook. 36-yearold navigator and bomb aimer, of Blackburn. He is a cousin of the England cricketer, Cyril Washbrook.

The Valiants left Britain in March for Christmas Island, Britain's Pacific H-bomb base. All had the new white finish, designed to reflect the flash of nuclear explosions, and special shields on the cockpit windows to reduce glare