Fighter Aces of the RAF in the Battle of Britain
Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 1844155870
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom that enemy aircraft bearing civil markings and marked with the Red Cross have recently flown over British ships at sea and in the vicinity of the British coast, and that they are being employed for purposes which His Majesty’s Government cannot regard as being consistent with the privileges generally accorded to the Red Cross. His Majesty’s Government desire to accord ambulance aircraft reasonable facilities for the transportation of the sick and
other burn patients introduced themselves and another, a tall man in a dressing gown with his head thrown right back so that he seemed to be looking along the line of his nose, greeted Geoffrey with ‘Ah, another bloody cripple! Welcome to the home for the aged and infirm!’ Two great orange circles surrounded the horizontal slits of his eyes. His hands were wrapped in large lint covers and a thin wisp of smoke rose from a long cigarette holder between his teeth. This was Geoffrey’s introduction to
pilots would have to endure on the demanding flights. When ready, Mac and Geoffrey flew their Mustangs from Wittering in central England, down to Lympne, an airfield on the south coast, where they would wait for the required weather conditions. While waiting, Geoffrey experienced a kind of fear he had not known before. It was nearly three years since he had been in combat with enemy aircraft. He had been shot down in flames and badly burned during the Battle of Britain and had spent two painful
out of the cloud layer, the last thing he recalled was the dazzling sunshine and the intensity of the blue sky. And then he lost consciousness. Some time later, he had no way of determining how much time had passed, he came to and thought at first that the nose of the plane was still pointing at the blue sky above. He soon realized though that the blue was that of the sea and he was hurtling toward it at a very great speed. As his head cleared he had the presence to pull hard on the control
wherever they wanted in their free time, whether to meet friends somewhere for lunch, on air force business, or for purely personal reasons. Such ad hoc flying was actually encouraged as it added to the sum total of a pilot’s flying experience and was thus looked upon as beneficial to the service by improving his skills, knowledge and self-confidence and exposing him to new situations and unfamiliar conditions. For such flights he was not required to get permission from anyone other than his
