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Patrick Bishop. Fighter Boys
FIGHTER BOYS. The Pilots Behind the Battle of Britain. Patrick Bishop
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Preface
Map
Prologue: The White Hart
1 Sportsmen and Butchers
2 Fighters versus Bombers
3 ‘Free of Boundaries, Free of Gravity, Free of Ties’
4 The Fatal Step
5 Winter of Uncertainty
6 Return to the Western Front
7 The Battle of France
8 Dunkirk
9 Doing It
10 Before the Storm
11 The Channel Battle
12 The Hun
13 Hearth and Home
14 Attrition
15 Brotherhood
16 ‘The Day Had Been a Year’
17 Autumn Sunset
18 Rhubarbs and Circuses
Epilogue: The Last Note
Picture Section
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Notes and References. Prologue: The White Hart
1. Sportsmen and Butchers
2. Fighters versus Bombers
3. ‘Free of Boundaries, Free of Gravity, Free of Ties’
4. The Fatal Step
5. Winter of Uncertainty
6. Return to the Western Front
7. The Battle of France
8. Dunkirk
9. Doing It
10. Before the Storm
11. The Channel Battle
12. The Hun
13. Hearth and Home
14. Attrition
15. Brotherhood
16. ‘The Day Had Been a Year’
17. Autumn Sunset
18. Rhubarbs and Circuses
Epilogue: The Last Note
Index
About the Author
Praise for Fighter Boys:
About the Publisher
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To Kelly and Bill
Title Page
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The following day he set off at dawn with a novice pilot, Lieutenant Donald Inglis, who had yet to shoot anything down, to show him how it was done. They ran into a two-seater over the German lines. Mannock began shooting, apparently killing the observer, and left the coup de grâce for his pupil, who set it on fire. Instead of climbing away as his own rules demanded, Mannock turned back over the burning aircraft, flying at only 200 feet. Inglis ‘saw a flame come out of the right hand side of his machine after which he apparently went down out of control. I went into a spiral down to fifty feet and saw the machine go straight into the ground and burn.’19
Mannock’s self-prophecy had been fulfilled. The bullets that brought him down appear to have come from the ground, a danger he had constantly warned against. He was credited with destroying seventy-four German aircraft by the time he died, nearly reaching the eighty victims recorded by his German opposite number, Richthofen.
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