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You Never Know Your Luck - Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: the Extraordinary Life of Keith 'Skeets' Ogilvie DFC (Hardcover)
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You Never Know Your Luck - Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: the Extraordinary Life of Keith 'Skeets' Ogilvie DFC (Hardcover)
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When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in
the summer of 1939, Keith 'Skeets' Ogilvie walked across the street
in Ottawa and joined the Royal Air Force. A week later he was on a
boat to England and a future he could not have imagined. Some
unusual luck won him a transfer as a Spitfire pilot to No. 609
(White Rose) Squadron, just as the Battle of Britain was being
joined. Over the next months he firmly established his credentials
with six confirmed victories and two probables, along with several
enemy aircraft damaged. Shot down over France the following July,
he was fortunate to be treated for grievous injuries by top German
surgeons. Skeets' home for the balance of the war was Stalag Luft
III prison camp. He was the second last man out of the 'Great
Escape' tunnel but was recaptured three days later. For reasons he
never understood, Skeets was one of 23 escapees who were spared
from being murdered by the Gestapo. 50 of his fellows were not so
lucky. In London on a night off from flying duties, Skeets had been
introduced to a fellow Canadian expatriate, Irene Lockwood. While
he was testing the limits of his luck, his future wife was
experiencing her own adventures in London, living through the daily
stress of the Luftwaffe bombing campaign and working with MI12, and
later as a wartime photographer with the RCAF. You Never Know Your
Luck is the story of two modest people who found themselves in
extraordinary circumstances, and who rose to the occasion like so
many of their contemporaries. Skeets' and Irene's own words and
memories are the foundations on which the experience of wartime
unfolds. A unique perspective from individuals who never failed to
wonder at their own fortune.
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