In service to their country: Moving tales of Irishmen who fought in WWII

THE amazing story of
, the West Cork medic who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945, has once again captured the imagination.Dr MacCarthy, a graduate of University College Cork, joined the RAF in 1939 on the eve of the Second World War. He enlisted on a short-service commission to further his medical career but remained in the RAF for 30 years, eventually rising to the rank of air commodore.