Before deploying to the Gulf, Bellamy made one last trip home. His mother’s parting words were that she had been praying hard, and ‘God has promised you will be safe’. Bellamy told his pilot Trevor Roche that this divine intervention would happily extend to him, as they were in the same aircraft. Then the rest of the formation heard about ‘Dave’s heavenly safety’. Superstitions grew. Perhaps if they flew close to Dave and Trevor’s aircraft, they too would fall under the Good Lord’s umbrella? Word spread and other members of 20 Squadron asked if they could join the formation that was clearly
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