Fleming's wartime service was conducted mainly from the relative safety of a desk in Whitehall.

With his entrance to Navel Intelligence it gave him the naval rank of Commander; a rank with a presence  he enjoyed. He set up an intelligence commando unit, which would follow invading troops and recover any intelligence-related material, there was nothing new in this as it duplicated an already proven success  in previous missions.

Fleming was also in charge of Operation Golden Eye a contingency plan for the invasion of Spain.

He devised Operation Ruthless,  this was a plan to obtain a German codebook by crashing a captured aeroplane into the Channel, hopefully to be rescued by the Germans as wild a plot any author would dream up. The 'survivors' would then kill the German crew and hijack the ship. The operation was put on ice, thankfully.

But, on one famous occasion, he found himself in the casino at the swish Portuguese resort of Estoril. In a scene straight out of a Bond novel later re-created fictionally in Casino Royale

There he decided to give a number of German secret agents who he had recognised, a thrashing at the card table. But unlike his hero,  Fleming left the casino, very  shaken and stirred and totally broke.

It was here at Goldeneye his villa perched at the edge of the Caribbean that he sat down in front of a battered Imperial typewriter and typed out the novel he had long wanted to write.  "The scent and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning," he typed,  in doing so gave birth to his creation  James Bond, and to the fictitious world of the  super spy.  Fleming finished the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in a mere eight weeks.

One of the principal characters of Casino Royal was said to be based on a real life female agent, that John Huston turned into a spoof spy movie in 1967, with David Niven in the lead role it should have ended their.

Unlike that real life agents who risked their lives, James Bond the celluloid hero did not, and his rise to fame rode on the backs of the reputations and heroism of those that did.

Taken from reports in the press and other sources. The opinions and views are that of Maurice A Christie, the son of a real one who did.