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Geoffrey Wellum was born in Walthamstow, and educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook. Aged seventeen, he joined the RAF on a short-service commission in August 1939 and served with 92 Squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. In March 1942 he went to 65 Squadron at Debden as a Flight Commander and from there to Malta later that year. He led a group of eight Spitfires off HMS Furious to Luqa during Operation Pedestal.
Returning to England, Wellum became a test pilot on Typhoons at Gloster Aircraft. He later became a gunnery instructor until the end of the war. He stayed in the RAF after 1945, serving in Germany as a staff officer, followed by a four-year tour of duty with 192 Squadron. Wellum left the RAF in 1961 to take up a position with a firm of commodity brokers in the City of London until his retirement to Cornwall. He died in July 2018, aged ninety-six.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780241987841 |
ISBN-10: | 0241987849 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Wellum, Geoffrey |
Hersteller: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Maße: | 195 x 127 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Geoffrey Wellum |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.02.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,282 kg |
Geoffrey Wellum was born in Walthamstow, and educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook. Aged seventeen, he joined the RAF on a short-service commission in August 1939 and served with 92 Squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. In March 1942 he went to 65 Squadron at Debden as a Flight Commander and from there to Malta later that year. He led a group of eight Spitfires off HMS Furious to Luqa during Operation Pedestal.
Returning to England, Wellum became a test pilot on Typhoons at Gloster Aircraft. He later became a gunnery instructor until the end of the war. He stayed in the RAF after 1945, serving in Germany as a staff officer, followed by a four-year tour of duty with 192 Squadron. Wellum left the RAF in 1961 to take up a position with a firm of commodity brokers in the City of London until his retirement to Cornwall. He died in July 2018, aged ninety-six.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780241987841 |
ISBN-10: | 0241987849 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Wellum, Geoffrey |
Hersteller: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Maße: | 195 x 127 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Geoffrey Wellum |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.02.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,282 kg |