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Author : Dennis Newton
Release : 2019-02-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 365/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spitfire Leader by : Dennis Newton
Download or read book Spitfire Leader written by Dennis Newton. This book was released on 2019-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant career and moving personal story of Battle of Britain Spitfire ace and squadron leader Bob Bungey.
Author : Max Avery
Release : 1999
Genre : Fighter pilots
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spitfire Leader by : Max Avery
Download or read book Spitfire Leader written by Max Avery. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand fighter pilot Rosie Mackie served from 1941-1945, operating in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Holland with 485, 243, 92 Squadrons, ending the war as commander of 122 Tempest Wing. He only once got a bullet in his own aircraft during his many engagements and, on one occasion, shot down an enemy plane with just six cannon shells.
Author : Brian Lane
Release : 2009
Genre : Air pilots, Military
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 545/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spitfire! by : Brian Lane
Download or read book Spitfire! written by Brian Lane. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of Spitfire pilot Brian Lane, DFC. Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic account of life as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. Lane was an 'ace' with six enemy 'kills' to his credit and was awarded the DFC for bravery in combat. The text is honest and vibrant, and has the immediacy of a book written close the event, untouched, therefore, by the doubts and debates of later years. Here we can read, exactly what it was like to 'scramble', to shoot down Messerschmitts, Heinkels, Dorniers and Stukas and how it felt to lose comrades every day. Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC was not only an exceptional fighter pilot but likewise a gifted leader, at all levels. In what was still a hierarchical and class conscious culture, 'Chiefy' Lane was different: he knew everyone under his command by first names, no matter how lowly their rank or status, and in the air he was always unflappable, calmly making the right tactical decision and in the process earning unlimited respect amongst pilots and aircrew. All these years later the survivors still speak of him with an unparalleled affection and respect bordering upon a holy reverence. High drama has never before been so characteristically understated, written, as it was, by the 'Finest of the Few'.
Author : Alison Hill
Release : 2022-09-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 488/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women by : Alison Hill
Download or read book Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women written by Alison Hill. This book was released on 2022-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Gower was the leader of the Spitfire women during the Second World War. After gaining her pilot's licence at 20, she set up the first female joyriding business in 1931 with engineer Dorothy Spicer and took 33,000 passengers up for a whirl, clocking up more than 2,000 hours overall. Pauline went on to command the inaugural women's section of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) and achieved equal pay for her women pilots. She enabled them to fly 'Anything to Anywhere', including Tiger Moths, Hurricanes, Wellingtons and – their firm favourite – the Spitfire. Pauline Gower: Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women is a story of bravery, fortitude and political persuasion. Pauline was a clear leader of her time and a true pioneer of flight. She died after giving birth, at only 36; a life cut tragically short, but one of significant achievements. Pauline left a huge legacy for women in aviation.
Author : James Edgar Johnson
Release : 2000
Genre : Fighter pilots
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 878/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wing Leader by : James Edgar Johnson
Download or read book Wing Leader written by James Edgar Johnson. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling story of the top scoring Allied fighter pilot of World War II 'Johnnie' Johnson, who served with Fighter Command squadrons throughout the war, scoring his 38th and final victory in September 1944. From the moment the author joins his first operational Spitfire squadron in August 1940, the reader is taken on an epic journey through the great aerial fighter actions of the war including the Battle of Britain, sweeps across the Channel and over France, Dieppe and Normandy; and finally, operations across the Rhine and into Germany itself.
