Has he documented his story anywhere? It would be a fascinating read.
I work with data for continuous improvement projects so rather enjoy it however the most I have impacted people with it was identifying optimum working practices for Sewage tankers to travel to ensure that customers were got...
What an impressive guy. The role he played will have doubtless been underestimated over the years but I feel (and sure he would have the data to back up) that it could have been much much worse