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First Light: Original Edition - Hardcover

Wellum, Geoffrey

 
9780670912483: First Light: Original Edition
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670912484 ISBN 13: 9780670912483
Verlag: Viking, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

The gripping account of 'Boy' Wellum, one of the youngest fighter pilots in the Battle of Britain. Enlisting in the Air Force weeks before the outbreak of WWII, Geoffrey Wellum found himself fighting the Germans over the English Channel, a Spitfire pilot at just 18 years of age. The reader follows Geoffrey through early (disastrous!) training sessions, his first solo flights, his first battle & a harrowing account of being lost over the sea. He describes the unique, exhilarating experience of flying a Spitfire and, also, the terrible toll that it takes on the young mind and body. At the age of 21 he is worn out physically and mentally. His war is at an end ...

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When he was just 17, Geoffrey Wellum joined the RAF in August 1939 and served with 92 Squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. In 1942 he went to 65 Squadron at Debden as a Flight Commander and from there to Malta later that year. He led 8 Spitfires off HMS Furious to Luqa during Operation Pedestal. He now lives in Mullion in Cornwall and has three children.

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Verlag
Viking
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0670912484
ISBN 13 
9780670912483
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
352
Kontakt zum Hersteller
VIKING
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