Nick, how about that?
Tom Pretty, before he died after contracting a superbug in a hospital where he was admitted for breaking his arm
His family thought of him as Bulletproof Tom - the RAF gunner who refused to succumb to his terrible wounds.
Tom Pretty was read the last rites after losing half his right arm and having most of his face burned off in a Second World War air crash.
He survived and earned a place in the Guinea Pig Club of injured airmen whose bodies were rebuilt by pioneering plastic surgery.
But more than 60 years later he found one enemy he could not resist - the C.diff superbug, which he caught in an NHS hospital. He died last week aged 86 at his home near Diss, Norfolk.
Yesterday his grieving family blamed "filthy" conditions for the loss of their father.
They claim the floors of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital were covered in dirt, while nurses dealt with Mr Pretty without protective gloves and clothing to stop the spread of infection.
His son John, 60, who still runs the garage business in Diss set up by Mr Pretty when he left the RAF in 1952, said: "It's an outrage. We've lost all confidence in the NHS.
"We always thought he was bulletproof - he survived so much and was such a brave man."
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