The group was composed of over 600 Royal Air Force members who required facial reconstruction, which at the time was experimental. Modern reconstructive surgery owes a huge debt to a group of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...