The Penguin's Progress: Memoirs of a WWII Dispatch Rider in His Majesty's Royal Air Force The Penguin's Progress: Memoirs of a WWII Dispatch Rider in His Majesty's Royal Air Force

The Penguin's Progress: Memoirs of a WWII Dispatch Rider in His Majesty's Royal Air Force

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A young man sat on Biggin Hill in early 1940, watching an attack on the R.A.F. fighter station. As a German bomber spun out, chased by a British Spitfire, Eric knew what he wanted to do. The day he turned 18, he volunteered at the Air Ministry in Kingsway, London. Raised in a military family, his Marine father was disappointed with his choice. But both father and son served their country with stubborn courage that brought them both back home safely in 1946.
When Eric was passed over for pilot, he was designated an air gunner. When he was later assigned as a dispatch rider, he adopted the mascot of a penguin, the flightless bird. His dogged determination kept him going through countless conflicts and close calls across North Africa and Italy. His amiable character and optimism secured friendships that would last a lifetime. These are the memoirs of Eric Thomas Merry, a dispatch rider for His Majesty’s Air Force.
 These accounts are also part of the Imperial War Museum’s archives in London, England. Illustrations and photographs taken during wartime and by Eric are included in the book. 

GENRE
Biografien und Memoiren
ERSCHIENEN
2017
11. September
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
156
Seiten
VERLAG
Aubrey Wynne
GRÖSSE
5,5
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