David DellDavid Dell, Born August 24, 1944. The author knew Elsa Spencer as a childhood friend. In 1944, the author's pregnant mother was sheltering with Elsa under a table in the kitchen of their house when a German bomb hit the house and entered the floor a ew feet from where Elsa and the author's mother were sheltering. Thankfully, the bomb did not explode. The author became a British paratrooper in 1964. Read More Read Less