FIGHTER BOYS The Pilots Behind the Battle of Britain Patrick Bishop William Collins An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2003 Copyright © Patrick Bishop 2003, 2020 Cover illustration: Cover shows RAF fighter pilots from 32 Sqn. At Hawkinge aerodrome, July 1940 © Hulton Archive Patrick Bishop asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780006532040 Ebook Edition © 2020 ISBN: 9780007381180 Version: 2020-04-06
To Kelly and Bill
Contents
3 ‘Free of Boundaries, Free of Gravity, Free of Ties’
Albert Ball (Imperial War Museum)
Mick Mannock (Imperial War Museum)
Hurricanes in ‘vic’ formation (Imperial War Museum)
