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When he was just 17, Geoffrey Wellum joined the RAF in August 1939 and served with 92 Squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. In 1942 he went to 65 Squadron at Debden as a Flight Commander and from there to Malta later that year. He led 8 Spitfires o readers.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,5_100003465...
Like many other boys in the second world war, I was deeply envious of fighter pilots and desperately hoped that the war would last long enough to allow me to participate. Only a little older than myself, Geoffrey Wellum was one of those who achieved that www.acampbell.ukfsn.org/bookreviews/r/wellum.html
Twenty-five years ago, Geoffrey Wellum was at the lowest ebb of his life. "The family business was going into liquidation," he recalls, voice quavering. "I was losing my house, my divorce was coming, my son was at university, I had nowhere to live. Eve www.independent.co.uk/news/people/geoffrey-wellum-prize-f...
Enlisting in the Air Force weeks before the outbreak of WW II, Geoffrey Wellum found himself fighting the Germans over the English Channel, a Spitfire pilot at just eighteen years of age. Compelling and wise, First Light is his incredible story. Here, i www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000034653_VID,...
