Fighter Boy: Life As Battle of Britain Pilot: Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot - Hardcover

Sutton, Barry

 
9781848688490: Fighter Boy: Life As Battle of Britain Pilot: Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848688490 ISBN 13: 9781848688490
Verlag: Amberley Publishing, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The Battle of Britain memoir of Hurricane pilot Barry Sutton, DFC. At 23 years of age, Barry Sutton had experienced more than the average person experiences in a lifetime. This book, based on a diary he kept during the Battle of Britain, covers September 1939 to September 1940 during which time based at North Weald one of Fighter Command's most important fighter stations, he shot down 3 German fighters and was shot down twice himself. It is also the story of his family, his wife whom he married in the midst of the epic air battle and who helped him survive the horrific injuries he sustained after bailing out of his burning Hurricane fighter plane.

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Barry Sutton shot down three enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain, and four more later in the war in Burma. He went on to serve in the RAF for 29 years and ended his career as a Group Captain. He lived out his retirement with his wife on the Isle of Jersey and died in 1988.

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Verlag
Amberley Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1848688490
ISBN 13 
9781848688490
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
185
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