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      Ten Fighter Boys

       Edited by

      Wing-Commander Athol Forbes, D.F.C.

       and

      Squadron-Leader Hubert Allen, D.F.C.

       Copyright

      Collins

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      First published by Collins in 1942

      Copyright © Collins, 2008

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      Source ISBN: 9780007236930

      Ebook Edition © DECEMBER 2009 ISBN: 9780007362462

      Version: 2019-09-19

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      To the Memory of PETER STUDD, KEN GILLIES, GEORGE CORBETT, Sgt. SMITH, JOHNNY MATHER, MAXY MAXWELL, BUTCH BAKER, MOULDY MILDREN, PETER KING, Flight-Sergeant HAYMAN, Sgt. Rob TAYLOR, Sgt. GREEN, Sgt. CLAUDE PARSONS, TED HOGG, PICKLE PICKERING, and BOGLE BODIE, all of the old squadron, who lost their lives as they would have wished, flying SPITFIRES in defence of their country, is this book very humbly dedicated.

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Copyright

Note to Readers

       Dedication

The Ten Fighter Boys

Foreword

Introduction

Introducing Duggie

       Introducing Durex

       Introducing Jimmy

       Introducing Bogle

       Introducing Bob

       Introducing Max

       Introducing Dizzy

       Introducing Athol

       Introducing Pickle

       Introducing Claude

       Epilogue

       Slang

       About the Publisher

       THE TEN FIGHTER BOYS

      DOUG HUNT

      JOHN ‘DUREX’KENDAL

      JIMMY ‘BINDER’ CORBIN

      CRELIN ‘BOGLE’ BODIE

      ROBERT ‘OXO’ OXSPRING

      MAX MAXWELL

      HUBERT ‘DIZZY’ ALLEN

      ATHOL FORBES

      JOHN ‘PICKLE’ PICKERING

      CLAUDE PARSONS

       FOREWORD

      It was November 1940 and I and the other pilots of 66 Squadron were sheltering from the cold in the dispersal hut at Biggin Hill aerodrome, each of us glad to be back from another sortie. The conversation flowed back and forth, very little of it serious, then Sqn Ldr Athol Forbes joined us. He had aspirations of becoming a writer after the war. He thought it would be a good idea if we pilots wrote the stories of our experience while our memories were fresh from the heat of battle. He would edit them and have them printed and published. We eventually got round to this in early 1941 and ten of us handed our stories to Sqn Ldr Forbes. The result was the book Ten Fighter Boys published in 1942 by Collins.