page_title: Hugh Verity
section_title: Postwar service
hierarchical_section_title: Hugh Verity / Postwar service
context_page_description: Hugh Verity, DSO & Bar, DFC was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and later a "special duties" squadron pilot working with Special Operations Executive landing in occupied France to insert and extract agents. He was decorated for gallantry five times.
context_section_description: Verity was granted a permanent commission as squadron leader on 25 March 1947. 
  Verity served on Staff at the Army Staff College, Quetta until being invalided home with polio. From 1948 to 1949 he commanded No. 541 Squadron RAF flying the Supermarine Spitfire Mark XIX photo reconnaissance variant and then served as wing commander (weapons) at the Central Fighter Establishment 1949 to 1951. He was promoted full wing commander on 1 July 1951,  serving at Joint Services Staff College until appointed wing commander (flying) at RAF Wahn from 1954 to 1955. Verity commanded No. 96 Squadron RAF flying Gloster Meteor jet night fighters in 1955 and was appointed group captain on 1 July 1958 ready for a series of postings as Staff Officer (Bomber Operations) at the Air Ministry, a posting to Turkey and commanding RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and then Staff Officer (Special Duties) back at the Air Ministry. 
  Verity requested retirement and was released from the service on 2 June 1965 to take up a position with the Printing and Publishing Industry Training Board.
  In 1978, Verity's history of all the RAF's secret landings in France, 1940–1944, was published as We landed by moonlight (Shepperton: Ian Allan Ltd, 1978). A revised edition appeared in 1995 (Airdata Pubns Ltd) and this was later updated (Manchester: Crecy Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-947554-75-0).
caption: Gloster Meteor jet fighters
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