article_snippet: After being presented with three medals for his service as a courageous bomber, Mr Collier (standing second from left) was transferred into a crack team of specialist mission planners .
article_snippet: Mr Collier stopped flying because the Air Ministry needed an experienced bomber officer to join a crack team of specialist mission planners, where Mr Collier stayed until the end of the war.
article_snippet: Mr Collier work in the Air Ministry was outstanding and vital.
article_snippet: Mr Collier liaised with Barnes Wallis, designer of the 'bouncing bomb', and with Wing Commander Guy Gibson on the Dambuster Raid in which the weapon was successfully used.
article_snippet: Even late in this war in the Air Ministry, with Allied troops closing in on victory in Europe, Mr Collier and Mr Collier team were doing vital work targeting and attacking the factories making and supplying the 'V' weapons that were wreaking havoc in Britain.
article_snippet: The V1 and V2 missiles caused terror among civilians in London - and even struck fear into Mr Collier. '
article_snippet: I wasn't aware until reading Mr Collier memoir, and other reading around it, that they were worried that the missiles would carry some sort of nuclear warhead or biological agent,' Mr Collier said..
highlights_snippet: Later joined mission planning team and helped organise Dambusters raid .
  