Acting Squadron Leader THD Drinkwater DFC, since the date on which he was reported missing, they must regretfully conclude that he has lost his life and his death had now been presumed for official purposes to have occurred on the 18th of May, 1944." وعدم تلقينا أى أخبار بشأن زوجك ..." "قائد السرب الثانى التكتيكى مقاتل . "درينكواتر..." "..."الحاصل عـلى وسـام "صليـب الطيـران الفخرى "منذ اليوم الذى تم فيه إعتباره مفقوداً ..."
Squadron Leader Les Munro of No. 617 Squadron wrote, "I have always considered the operation in one sense to be the most important the squadron carried out in my time – not because bad weather, nor because of any threat of enemy action and not measured by any visible results, but because of the very exacting requirements to which we had to fly and navigate". ليس بسبب سوء الأحوال الجوية، ولا بسبب أي تهديد باعتراض العدو.
On his first mission during Operation Desert Storm, when aged 29, an ultra-low level daylight mission on Ar Rumaylah airfield, while acting as number two to Squadron Leader Paul "Pablo" Mason, his Panavia Tornado ZD 791 of XV Squadron was hit at fifty feet by a shoulder-launched SAM SA-14, and he was captured by the military of Iraq. في أول مهمة له خلال عملية عاصفة الصحراء عندما كان عمره 29 عاما كانت مهمة ضوء النهار على مستوى منخفض للغاية في مطار الرميلة بينما كان يعمل في المرتبة الثانية إلى قائد السرب بول ماسون فقد ضربت طائرة بانافيا تورنادو زد 791 من السرب الخامس عشر بخمسين قدم من قبل صاروخ أرض-جو سام-14 الذي أطلق من الكتف وألقي القبض عليه من قبل الجيش العراقي.