I'm out

Brown's exploits run through some of the most momentous events of world history. He was at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he interrogated Hermann Goering, helped liberate the Belsen concentration camp and by chance managed to sing with the Glenn Miller band.  [He was also one of only two survivors of the sinking of HMS Audacity.]

But his greatest achievements were as a Royal Navy test pilot...

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Bonus:  NOT an obituary