Geoffrey Wellum

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Produktbeschreibung

The story of a young man's coming of age in a Spitfire during the Battle of Britain, perennially popular since its initial publication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 127mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780241987841
• ISBN-10: 0241987849
• Artikelnr.: 58702883

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Wellum was born in Walthamstow, and educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook. Aged seventeen, he joined the RAF on a short-service commission in August 1939 and served with 92 Squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. In March 1942 he went to 65 Squadron at Debden as a Flight Commander and from there to Malta later that year. He led a group of eight Spitfires off HMS Furious to Luqa during Operation Pedestal. Returning to England, Wellum became a test pilot on Typhoons at Gloster Aircraft. He later became a gunnery instructor until the end of the war. He stayed in the RAF after 1945, serving in Germany as a staff officer, followed by a four-year tour of duty with 192 Squadron. Wellum left the RAF in 1961 to take up a position with a firm of commodity brokers in the City of London until his retirement to Cornwall. He died in July 2018, aged ninety-six.