num_pages: 256
description: A decorated WWII flying ace and Royal Air Force Group Captain recounts his experience in the air over Europe in this thrilling military memoir.New Zealand fighter pilot Desmond Scott joined the Royal Air Force in 1940. Over the course of his illustrious service he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar and a Distinguished Service Order. For the heroic act of rescuing a pilot from a crashed Supermarine Spitfire he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.In Typhoon Pilot  Scott recounts his time as a young commander of a New Zealand Air Force squadron and later as the RAF's youngest Group Captain at the age of 25. His story includes conflict in the air over Normandy Belgium Holland and Germany where the Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber fought its last battle.
language: English
title: Typhoon Pilot
publisher: Leo Cooper