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 First Light - Geoffrey Wellum
 First Light - Geoffrey Wellum ... 2003-05-01 by PenguinNewest Review: ... to defend all those years ago. Every one of those ingrates who take their lives and liberty for granted, and act as if the ... more ... world owes them something, should be made to read this book. That's assuming they can read in the first place.
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"First Light" starts out with seventeen year-old Wellum's application to the Air Ministry to train as a pilot, and then takes us through his training on the Tiger Moth bi-plane, the North American Harvard trainer and finally on to the awesome Spitfire. The main part of the narrative centres on his combat experiences with the legendary 92 Squadron at RAF Biggi...more |
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~~~~~~~~~~ INTRODUCTION ~~~~~~~~~~ We owe an immense debt of gratitude to the courageous service men and women who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedoms, and none more so than the brave "Few*" of the Royal Air Force (RAF) who, in the autumn of 1940, defended our skies against the sustained waves of bombers that the Luftwaffe hurled at English cities during the Battle of Britain. (* the phrase "the Few" comes from a Winston Churchill's speech made on 20th August 1940, when he famously said "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few"). Geoffrey Wellum was one of those ... Read the complete review
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