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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 352

    Pages
  • 9780141008141

    ISBN
  • 129 mm

    Width
  • 198 mm

    Height
  • 277 gram

    Weight
  • PAPERBACK

    Binding
  • 29 APRIL 2003

    Publish Date
  • 20 mm

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    In First Light, Geoffrey Wellum tells the inspiring, often terrifying true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world had ever seen. It is the story of an idealistic schoolboy who couldnt believe his luck when the RAF agreed to take him on as a pupil pilot at the minimum age of seventeen and a half in 1939. In his In First Light, Geoffrey Wellum tells the inspiring, often terrifying true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world had...  Read More

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    Geoffrey Wellum

    GEOFFREY WELLUM, a veteran of the Battle of Britain, was the youngest fighter pilot (at 18) in the Royal Air Force (RAF) to have fought in that battle.

    Aged seventeen, he signed up on a short-service commission with the Royal Air Force in August 1939. The first aircraft he flew was the Tiger Moth at Desford airfield in Leicestershire, after successfully completing the course he then went on to fly the North American Harvard at RAF Little Rissington with 6FTS.

    He was then posted directly in May 1940 to 92 Squadron, flying Spitfires. He saw extensive action during the Battle of Britain. His first Commanding Officer was Roger Bushell, (later immortalised in The Great Escape), and his close colleagues included Brian Kingcome.

    He claimed a Heinkel He 111 bomber shot down on 11 September 1940, and a quarter share in a Junkers Ju 88 downed on 27 September. Two (and one shared) Bf 109s were claimed damaged during November 1940. A Bf 109 was claimed shot down [by Wellum] on 9 July 1941 over France.

    In February 1942 he was transferred to 65 Squadron based at Debden, being appointed to Flight Commander in March 1942.

    On 11 August 1942, Wellum led 8 Spitfires launched from the carrier HMS Furious to reinforce the fighter complement to Luqa airfield on Malta. Here he joined 1435 Squadron on air defence duties before being rested after a severe bout of sinusitis.

    Wellum suffered severe combat fatigue after three years intensive flying, because of the immense strain that frontline British fighter pilots were put under during that period. He returned from Malta to Britain, becoming a test pilot on the Hawker Typhoon, based at Gloster Aircraft.

    He finished the war as a gunnery instructor, staying in the RAF, first as a staff officer in West Germany, followed by a four year tour with 192 Squadron. He married Grace, his wartime girlfriend and they had three children.

    Wellum left the Royal Air Force in 1961, [and went to work] wit

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