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![]() LAST OF THE TEN FIGHTER BOYS - Special Edition Price per Unit (piece):
£95.00
The book charts: his early life before the outbreak of war in 1939; the decisions he made; and, those that were made for him. He describes how an ordinary working class boy from Maidstone was propelled into the most extraordinary of situations, landing him in the thick of the action in the skies over Kent during the summer and autumn of 1940. Jimmy Corbin DFC was a schoolteacher before training as a pilot. Joining a frontline Spitfire squadron in the summer of 1940. He flew operationally in the Battle of Britain, later instructing at an Operational Training Unit before being posted to North Africa as a Spitfire pilot. After the war he resumed his career as a schoolteacher. Now retired, he lives in Kent.
The book has been personally signed to the title page by the author, himself a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot; Flight Lieutenant Jimmy Corbin, DFC
This Special Edition also contains a "Veterans Edition" bookplate personally signed by the following Battle of Britain veterans; Squadron Leader Tony Pickering Air Commodore Peter Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC*, AFC
Wing Commander Ken Mackenzie DFC, AFC Wing Commander Bob Doe DSO, DFC
Squadron Leader Peter Dawbarn Squadron Leader Jocelyn Millard
Flight Lieutenant Albert Gregory DFC Squadron Leader Robert Kings
Flight Lieutenant Trevor Gray Group Captain Herbert Pinfold
Squadron Leader Tony Iveson DFC Squadron Leader Geoffrey Wellum DFC
Warrant Officer David Denchfield Flight Lieutenant Terry Clark DFM
Squadron Leader Ken Lee DFC
Signed Hardback edition. Only 10 of these Special Editions were produced.
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