A Spitfire Pilots Story
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Author | : David Crook |
Publisher | : Grub Street Publishers |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1909808792 |
“A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a fighter pilot” in World War II (The Spectator). Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle, when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler’s Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealized air conflicts—the Battle of Britain—seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over one hundred planes in that epic contest. Often hopelessly outnumbered, David Crook and his colleagues, in their state-of-the-art Spitfires, committed acts of unimaginable bravery against the Messerschmitts and the Junkers. Many did not make it—and Crook describes the absence they leave in the squadron with great poignancy. Includes an introduction by historian Richard Overy
Author | : Dennis Newton |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445654156 |
A family-authorised biography of Pat Hughes, one of the top-scoring aces of the Battle of Britain.
Author | : Dilip Sarkar |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2010-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445624575 |
Spitfire fighter pilots tell their extraordinary stories of combat during the Second World War.
Author | : Dr Alfred Price |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 707 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0752477099 |
The narrative description and condensed history of the Spitfire's construction, combat career and post-war service, bought together to tell the complete, concise history of the world's most famous aircraft of all time and undoubtedly the finest fighter of World War II. When Spitfire at War first appeared in 1974, it enjoyed critical acclaim, for the aircraft had never been described in such terms and detail before. It was followed by a second volume in 1985 and a third volume in 1990. All three volumes sold well and are hailed as classic works on the subject. These important works have been out of print for more than a decade, thereby denying them to the current breed of aviation buffs. The time has come to re-issue the three books as a single volume, the author 'cherry-picking' the choice cuts to produce the finest title on the mighty and beloved Spitfire.
Author | : Mary Ellis |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473895383 |
This WWII biography recounts the heroic contributions of a female pilot who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes and Wellington Bombers for the RAF. A farmer’s daughter from Oxfordshire, Mary Ellis fell in love with flying at the age of eleven, when she rode in a biplane at a flying circus. Already a licensed pilot by the time the Second World War broke out, Mary joined the Air Transit Auxiliary in 1941. As a ferry pilot, she transported aircraft for the Royal Air Force, including more than four hundred Spitfires and seventy-six different kinds of aircraft. After the war, Mary accepted a secondment to the RAF as one of the first pilots to fly the new Gloster Meteor, Britain’s first fighter jet. By 1950, she became Europe's first female air commandant. In this authorized biography, Mary and biographer Melody Foreman vividly recount her action-packed career spanning almost a century of aviation. Mary says: I am passionate for anything fast and furious. I always have been since the age of three and I always knew I would fly. The day I stepped into a Spitfire was a complete joy and it was the most natural thing in the world for me.
Author | : Tom Slack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Spitfire (Fighter plane) |
ISBN | : 9781852000486 |
Author | : Black' Robertson |
Publisher | : Air World |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526784890 |
As this fascinating memoir unfolds, moving backwards and forwards through time, two parallel stories emerge: one of a Second World War Spitfire ace whose flying career comes to a premature end when hes shot down and loses an eye, the other of his progeny, a second generation fighter pilot who eventually reaches the rank of air marshal. The narrative is unique in its use of two separate and distinct voices. The authors own reminiscences are interwoven with those his father recorded more than thirty years ago, embellished by extracts from some 300 of his wartime letters. Intensely personal and revealing, controversial too at times, this account is above all about people, not least those with whom the author flew while serving with the USAF a tour marked by tragedy; that said, they proved altogether more friendly than the P-38 pilots who twice attacked his father in North Africa! A daughter with dual citizenship subsequently helped him sustain his links with the US, both while serving and afterwards in business. The irony is that the son spent a lifetime training for the ultimate examination one that despite strictly limited preparation his father passed with flying colors. To Black Robertsons eternal regret he was never able to put his own training to the test. His father, Robbie, was awarded the DFC and retired as a flight lieutenant after five years or so. He himself served for nearly thirty-six years, earned a Queens Commendation, an OBE and CBE and served as an ADC to HM The Queen. But after reaching almost the top of the RAF tree, in one important sense he retired unfulfilled; his mettle was never tested under fire. Anyone interested to know more about flying, about the RAF, about leadership, about character even, need look no further than this beautifully crafted, immensely readable account.
Author | : Jeffrey Quill |
Publisher | : Crecy Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1800351623 |
This is the personal account of an exceptional Spitfire test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot. Starting with lively descriptions of the pre-war Airforce in the mid-1930s, Jeffrey Quill moves on to cover his fascination test flying experiences. He took charge of some of the most important military aircraft of the time and, in particular, the immortal Spitfire, from its experimental, prototype stage in 1936 when he worked with its chief designer, R.J. Mitchell, to the end of its production in 1948.
Author | : Geoffrey Wellum |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0241984335 |
Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, eighteen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF . . . Desperate to get in the air, he makes it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum finds himself flying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s. Over the coming months he and his fellow pilots play a crucial role in the Battle of Britain. But of the friends that take to the air alongside Wellum many never return.
Author | : Roger Hall |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2013-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445609886 |
An extraordinary true story of combat in the Battle of Britain. Includes some of the most graphic and atmospheric accounts of air combat between Spitfire and Nazi Messerschmitt fighters ever published.