‘I lost my dad to one of WWII’s greatest mysteries – I was amazed to find a letter he wrote about me’

Carol Lockwood with one of her father’s war letters (Picture: Barry Goodwin/Cover Images) A woman whose father died in World War II never got to meet him – but decades later discovered a stunning comment he wrote about her in a letter. Flight Lieutenant Alfred ‘Ginge’ Culver DFM disappeared along with three other airmen and a famous war artist during a search and rescue operation over Iceland on September 2, 1942. His wife had given birth to a daughter just eight weeks before the tragedy, which remains one of the greatest mysteries of the war. Nearly 84 years later, that daughter Carol Lockwood has revealed the treasure trove of letters she discovered after her mother’s death in 1992. Not only did it bring her father to life, it revealed his hope she would find a love like he felt for his