Title: First light
Description: 'An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone' INDEPENDENT Two months before the outbreak of WWII, seventeen year old Geoffrey Wellum left school to become a fighter pilot with the RAF. He made it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum found himselfflying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s. Published more than fifty years afterwards, FIRST LIGHT is Geoffrey Wellum's gripping memoir of his experiences as a fighter pilot during WWII.
Subjects: Battle of Britain, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, British Aerial operations, British Personal narratives, Fighter pilots, Great Britain, Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, No. 92, History, Nonfiction, World War II, World War, 1939-1945, Great britain, royal air force, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, british, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british
Places: England, Great Britain, Malta
People: Geoffrey Wellum
Time periods: 1940