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Last of the Ten Fighter Boys (Paperback)
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Last of the Ten Fighter Boys (Paperback)
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List price R315
Loot Price R259
Discovery Miles 2 590
You Save R56 (18%)
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In 1940, against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, 66
Squadron's commanding officer, Squadron Leader Athol Forbes, asked
ten of his pilots to record their experiences of flying one of the
greatest aerial battles ever waged. The Ten Fighter Boys, published
in 1942, comprised the first-hand accounts of pilot officers and
sergeant pilots from all walks of life among them was Sergeant
Jimmy Corbin, who wrote the third chapter. He was 23 - old by pilot
standards - and, like the rest of the squadron, based at Biggin
Hill, Kent. Now, sixty years later, Flight Lieutenant Jimmy Corbin,
Spitfire pilot, tells his extraordinary wartime story. He describes
how an ordinary working-class boy from Maidstone was propelled into
the thick of action in the skies over Kent during the summer and
autumn of 1940. As the sole survivor of the original 'Ten Fighter
Boys', Jimmy's story is all the more poignant now that the men who
fought the Battle of Britain pass from living memory.
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