Mayhew, Emily R. The Reconstruction of Warriors: Archibald McIndoe, the Royal Air Force and the Guinea Pig Club. London: Greenhill, 2004. Images courtesy of The Guinea Pig Club, via East Grinstead ...

Members of the Guinea Pig Club - they underwent radical new reconstructive ... in a similar plane when he was hit in 1945Credit: Getty Images - Getty Flames ripped through the fuselage and Doug ...

This week the Duke of Edinburgh unveiled a memorial to the Guinea Pig Club, a unique band of RAF airmen who paid a heavy price for serving their country during the Second World War. Often burned ...

Geraldine James narrates a documentary about the Guinea Pig Club, a drinking club whose members were former WWII pilots who cheated death and had a disfigurement to prove it. Show more The Guinea ...

They became known as the Guinea Pig Club after being treated by surgeon Archibald McIndoe at his clinic in Sussex. Just 18 "guinea pigs" are still alive and now a permanent tribute to the club is ...

Dr Sandy Saunders, who was badly burned in a crash in 1945, is a member of the Guinea Pig Club, so called because its members underwent pioneering surgery by war-time doctors. A statue in the men ...

Modern reconstructive surgery owes a huge debt to a group of wounded warriors in World War II who called themselves the Guinea Pig Club. The group was comprised of over 600 Royal Air Force members ...

Luckily, Jan was about to join the Guinea Pig Club – a band of injured Second World War airmen undergoing untested procedures at the hospital to rebuild their faces and bodies. And thanks to ...

And so the drinking party reformed under a new name: the Guinea Pig Club, with Tom Gleave the chief guinea pig. The club’s activities moved rapidly beyond drinking and singing around pianos to ...