Spitfire pilot Air Commodore Geoffrey Stephenson : the biography of the pilot of Duxford's Spitfire Mk.I N3200
Shields, John (Squadron navigator)2024
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Under cloudless blue skies, the Oakwood Cemetery Annex in Montgomery, Alabama hosts the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the United States. Most of the graves contain young RAF trainee pilots killed during their flying training at nearby Maxwell and Gunter airfields during the Second World War. However, there is another grave, located at the edge of the plot, not from the early 1940s but, from 1954. The grave marks the final resting place of a 44-year-old senior RAF officer, Air Commodore Geoffrey Stephenson CBE. It begs the questions who was he and why is he buried there? This book sets out to answer both these questions. As a result, this is the remarkable story of not only Stephenson's life but the people, planes and places that would leave an indelible mark on a seasoned fighter pilot.
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Barnsley : Air World, 2024.
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320 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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9781036105402 (hbk. :)
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English
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2744052
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