Book description
In 1940, against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, 66
Squadron's commanding officier, Squadron Leader Athol Forbes, asked
ten of his pilots to record their experiences of flying one of the
greatest aerial battles ever waged. The Ten Fighter Boys, published in
1942, comprised the first-hand accounts of pilot officers and
sergeants pilots from all walks of life among them was Sergeant Jimmy
Corbin, who wrote the third chapter. He was 23 -- old by pilot
standards -- and, like the rest of the squadron, based at Biggin Hill,
Kent. Now, sixty years later, Flight Lieutenant Jimmy Corbin, Spitfire
pilot, tells his extraordinary wartime story. He describes how an
ordinary working-class boy from Maidstone was propelled into the thick
of action in the skies over Kent during the summer and autumn of 1940.
As the sole survivor of the original Ten Fighter Boys, Jimmy's story
is all the more poignant now that the men who fought the Battle of
Britain pass from living memory.
