Fighter Boy
Geoffrey Page was one of the most remarkable fighter pilots of World War Two. Shot down in a fireball during the Battle of Britain his hands were burnt to the bone and his face badly charred. Despite his horrific injuries Page went onto fly at D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and Arnhem. On appointment in 1944 he was the younge......
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Geoffrey Page was one of the most remarkable fighter pilots of World War Two. Shot down in a fireball during the Battle of Britain his hands were burnt to the bone and his face badly charred. Despite his horrific injuries Page went onto fly at D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and Arnhem. On appointment in 1944 he was the youngest Wing Commander in the RAF, aged 24. During two years in hospital under the care of the legendary pioneering surgeon Archibald McIndoe he endured fifteen painful operations. Through Geoffrey's eyes we understand exactly why McIndoe was such a brilliant ground breaker. Page vowed to shoot down a German aircraft as revenge for every one of his operations and hit his target, but it left him feeling hollow, 'I had a kind of bloodlust. But when I shot down as many German planes as I had operations on my hands and face, I was just left with an empty feeling.' Using unpublished material from extensive family archives, this compelling book tells the unvarnished story of
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| Produktnavn | Fighter Boy |
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| book typ | Historie og dokumentar |