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| Rating | : | 4.69 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1445605104 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. Nineteen years old, fresh from training at Montrose on Hawker Audax biplanes he was soon to be pitch forked into the maelstrom of air fighting on which the survival of Britain was to depend. When the Germans were blitzing their way across France, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first posting – to 249 Squadron. Tom Neil flew with James Nicolson at the time he won the only Battle of Britain Victoria Cross. Tom flew 141 combat missions (few pilots reached 50) mostly from North Weald airfield in Essex, and is one of only a handful of pilots alive today. He is now 90 and lives in Suffolk with his wife who was a Fighter Command plotter when they met in 1940.. By the end of the year he had shot down 13 enemy aircraft, seen many of his friends killed, injured or burned, and was himself a wary and accomplished fighter pilot
The Battle of Britain from the Everyman's Standpoint M. I. Smith If you're a Battle of Britain buff, understand at the outset that this book is not like Fly For Your Life, or Reach for the Sky. Tom Neil evidently wasn't privy to the sorts of tactical and strategic discussions that circulated amongst the likes of Stanford-Tuck and Bader, which is part of what makes this personal account of the Battle so interesting. Through this text, one gets to feel the helplessness and frustration of swanning about southern England in search of elusive Luftwaffe interlopers, always mindful that the unseen enemy might appear to spray you with cannon fire at any moment. Most of the tim. "Humdinger" according to flakhappy. A Hurricane pilot in the Battle of Britain tells a fascinating tale of his own experience flying against the best that Hitler and Goering could send at them. His writing is detailed just enough to fill the readers' needs, and not so technical as to turn them off.. Michael Bell said Pilots' prospective of the Battle. I enjoyed the first hand experience of the pilots that actually flew during the Battle of Brittany. That is what I was after and that is exactly what the book provided.
He flew 141 combat missions (few pilots reached 50) mostly from North Weald airfield in Essex. He is one of only a handful of veterans still alive today. His first victory was an Me109, followed in quick succession by 12 others. He is 91 and lives in Suffolk with his wife who was a Fighter Command plotter when they met in 1940. . He was one of the pilots the War Ministry used in their propaganda at the time of the Battle of Britain partly because of his
The best book on the Battle of Britain'--SIR JOHN GRANDY, Marshal of the RAF