Wingless Victory: Anthony RichardsonOn May 27, 1940, Wing Commander Basil Embry (later Air Chief Marshal and Commander, Allied Air Forces in Central Europe 1953 56), although appointed to a higher command, decided to lead his old squadron into battle for the last time. Within the hour he was shot down in France and found himself alone, unarmed and in uniform. Capture was inevitable. He was, in fact, captured three times: on one occasion breaking from a column of prisoners under the