Yes, there’s a classic film about him staring Kenneth Moore called, ‘Reach for the Sky’, where he’s played more sympathetically, but he’s well known for being a very….’difficult’ man!I knew him, he was arrogant, narcissistic and racist. It was his arrogance that caused his accident in which he lost his legs. He had prosthetic legs, he was a fearless fighter pilot but treated his ground crew and others appallingly, was cruel to his batman as well as causing huge trouble for his fellow inmates at Colditz because the Germans took his antics out on them. He is feted as a hero because the War Department needed him and others to bolster morale during the war. He was disliked by most in the RAF for a lot time afterwards. I have to mention this, sorry, but he needs to be remembered as what he was.
Rude, arrogant...and a born fighter
He became a wartime legend but, as a new book reveals, the legless flying ace Douglas Bader hated the film which made his name and was deeply disliked by some colleagues...www.express.co.uk