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Survival against all odds: Sunday, 8 June 1942, shot down over France

By John , Great Britain. Royal Air Force;Clutton-Brock , Oliver;Misseldine

Book information

Publisher
Grub Street Publishing
Year
2010
ISBN
9781906502751, 9781908117649, 1908117648
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2686789 bytes)
Pages
(viii, 208 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

On June 8th, John was shot down over northern France and for over two months was on the run from the Gestapo, being aided and abetted by the French resistance and British Intelligence, with more than a few alarms along the way. Journeying south through occupied France, he eventually escaped from Gibraltar in August, arriving in Scotland and thence to 65 (East India) Squadron. Commissioned as a pilot officer, he was posted to Algeria to ferry new Spitfires and Hurricanes to front-line squadrons supporting the Eighth Army. This role too was not without its hazards but he made it through to become CO of an airfield and to meet and marry a French girl, Mauricette. Sixty-four years later, they are still together and this is Johns heart-warming and page-turning story of survival against the odds, written by John Misseldine and the acclaimed author Oliver Clutton-Brock. Grub Street has published two of Oliver Clutton-Brocks previous works, Footprints on the Sands of Time, and RAF Evaders.

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