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21 de jun. de 2024 · Richard Hillary was a young man with a talent for writing and an interest in self-analysis. In this unusually reflective account he recalls the dogfight that was his undoing and gives a...
Hace 5 días · Richard Hillary claimed five enemy aircraft before being shot down over the North Sea on 3 September 1940. He sustained serious burns as a result and was treated by Archibald McIndoe, the...
11 de jun. de 2024 · Taking London puts the reader inside the action, telling the complex personal sagas of Churchill, Dowding, and legendary fighter pilots like Peter Townsend, Geoffrey Wellum, Richard Hillary, and American Billy Fiske, all set against the defiant backdrop of wartime London.
15 de jun. de 2024 · - Richard Hillary, Royal Air Force pilot, reflecting on the first German plane he shot down. In this episode we look at the controversial claim made by US Army General S.L.A. Marshall in 1947, when he asserted that less than 25% of US riflemen fired their weapons at the enemy in WWII.
27 de jun. de 2024 · Richard Hillary was born in Australia in 1919 but educated in England and attended Trinity College Oxford. He was trained as an RAF pilot and terribly burnt when shot down a few miles out to sea over Margate. He then came under Sir Archibald McIndoe to make the best of his condition.
24 de jun. de 2024 · It was of course, with its combatants, much glamorised by newspapers but Richard Hillary was right when he said “much that is untrue and misleading has been written on the pilot of this era. Within one short year he has become the nation’s hero and the attempt to live up to this false conception bores him…..
Hace 6 días · Unfortunately, as with many wartime training units, this airfield in particular gained a reputation for frequent accidents, one of them in January 1943 resulting in the death of badly burned pilot Richard Hillary who wrote famous aviation book The Last Enemy.
