As long ago as 1961 a young Terry Parsons, then still in his
twenties, began his long search for lost aircraft and memories of
the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. What he discovered over the
decades that followed went far beyond the tangled wreckage of
military aircraft, both fighters and bombers. For with each of the
thousands of RAF and Luftwaffe artefacts he unearthed, came the
intricate weave of life stories linking the valiant and the brave,
the living and the dead. Included among the items he has recovered
from the many wreck sites he has investigated, was a mud-cloaked
control column from a Spitfire with its gun button still switched
to firing mode, a piece of Dornier Do 17 fuselage bearing the fatal
bullet holes which led it to crash to the of earth of south-east
England, a pilot's waistcoat once used to stop the drafts and
rattles in a Hurricane cockpit, blood-stained maps from a Luftwaffe
bomber, and a buckled tail fin from a Me 110 bearing the
unmistakable symbol of the swastika. Now in this exclusive
biography, created from Terry's original notes and photographs
stretching back almost seventy years, we learn not only about the
historical significance of his own story as a wreck-hunter but the
importance of remembering the lives of the men who fought in the
skies above Britain in those desperate days of the Second World
War. Indeed, this book shows us how one man's pioneering commitment
to aviation archaeology ultimately serves as a unique tribute to
thousands of young souls both lost and found of the Battle of
Britain and the Blitz.
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