Later Life
Day was promoted to group captain in 1946 before retiring from service in 1950.
He acted as technical advisor for the films Reach for the Sky and The Great Escape.
The book Wings Day by Sydney Smith (Squadron Leader Eric Sydney-Smith RAF) is an account of Day's exploits as a Prisoner of War. Sydney-Smith was also a POW and was held with Day for several years. The book was first published by Willian Collins & Sons & Co Ltd 1968, re-released by Pan Books (London) in 1970. ISBN 0-330-02494-9.
Day also heavily features in the biography of Douglas Bader Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill and The Great Escape also by Brickhill.
Harry Day was a much loved and admired man, whose courage went hand in hand with an attractive unconventionality and sense of humour. Married to Margo, he lived mainly in the Isle of Wight or at 6, Trevor Square, London. He died in Blue Sister's Hospital, Malta on 11 March 1977, aged 78.
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