"The Bell."

A "Flying Officer X" story in which the narrator and a comrade visit a pub accessible by ferry, a bell serving to request ferry service, and visit with the proprietors about a well-loved fellow pilot.

Aspects of that pilot's story resemble those of the pilot in "The Greatest People in the World."

Published in:

• The Times Literary Supplement (April 3, 1943)
• Jerusalem Radio Forum (June 4, 1943)
• The Royal Air Force Journal (July 1943)
• Slipstream: A Royal Air Force Anthology (1946)
• The Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (1952)
• The Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (Bloomsbury ebook, 2018)