A pensioner has put his name to hundreds of posters of an aircraft he flew during the Second World War.

Harold Corbin, 81, of Furze Hill, Hove, was contacted by Aces High, an aviation gallery specialising in images from the war.

He flew in 1943 and 1944, first in the Bay of Biscay as coastal command against German shipping and then in France.

He said: "We were shot down in our Mosquito during one of the last attacks in France.

"We bailed out in the dark and I parachuted down onto an apple orchard.

"The first man I met was a Frenchman on a bike who took me to the local resistance.

"I was hidden at the back of a cafe and while I was there an American jeep pulled up with my navigator looking for me."

Towards the end of the war Mr Corbin was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal "for persisting".

The pictures Mr Corbin signed were of a Beaufighter. A spokeswoman at Aces High said: "We have four main artists whose prints we sell after getting them signed by the veterans or pilots who flew the planes in the pictures.

"This makes them more real to collectors and more valuable.

"We exhibit the prints at air shows and customers can meet the veterans and get them to sign their print."

Aces High will be showing at Goodwood on September 16, 17 and 18. For details, log on to www.aceshighgallery.co.uk