The Silver Spitfire
The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in his Own Words
Tom Neil(Author)
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published on 13. September 2012
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-85782-078-5 (ISBN)
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Description
Following the D-Day landings, Battle of Britain hero, Tom Neill was a assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neill commandeered an abandoned Spitfire as his own personal aeroplane. Erasing any evidence of its provenance and stripping it down to bare metal it became the RAF's only silver Spitfire. Alongside his US comrades, he took the Silver Spitfire into battle until, with the wars end, he was forced to make a difficult decision. Faced with too many questions about the mysterious fighter, he took it out over the south coast, rolled it on to it's back and bailed out, leaving the Silver Spitfire to dive to a watery grave.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85782-078-5 (9780857820785)
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02/2013
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Person
Tom Neill was one of the RAF's leading WWII fighter pilots. He lives with his wife - who he met during the war - near Diss in Suffolk.