In "TARGET TOBRUK", George Yeoman, whom we first met as a greenhorn fighter pilot in 'Hurricane Squadron', is now a full-blooded ace and combat veteran. The time is April 1941 and Yeoman has been assigned to a fighter squadron in North Africa, where British and Commonwealth forces are locked in a gr...
"Squadron Scramble" takes up where "Hurricane Squadron" left off. The time is now early summer 1940. No. 505 Squadron --- with which George Yeoman received his baptism of fire in the Battle of France --- is now in Britain, where it has been re-equipped with Spitfires and its pilots have been fully t...
"Hurricane Squadron" gives the reader a tangible view and penetrating insight into the life of George Yeoman, a 20-year old Sergeant Pilot in the Royal Air Force, as well as the frontline fighter squadron (No. 505) to which he has been assigned. The time is May 1940. Yeoman is arriving at the airb...
Hats off to the test pilots who flew these planes! There was a very real risk that pilots whould suffer a violent and sudden death. Sometimes the flights - literally - became 'break tests'.