A01=Jimmy Corbin
Author_Jimmy Corbin
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Product details
- ISBN 9780750948050
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2007
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is intended to be both a prequel and sequel to the chapter Jimmy wrote for The Ten Fighter Boys. Filling in the 'missing pieces', the book charts his early life before the ourbreak of war in 1939, the decisions he made, and those that were made for him. After the Battle of Britian Jimmy was commissioned and posted to North Africa, where he flew Spitfires in action with 72 Squadron and was awarded the D.F.C. He is the sole survivor of the original 'Ten Fighter Boys'.
Jimmy Corbin DFC was a schoolteacher before training as a pilot. Joining a frontline Spitfire squadron in the summer of 1940. He flew operationally in the Battle of Britain, later instructing at an Operational Training Unit before being posted to North Africa as a Spitfire pilot. After the war he resumed his career as a schoolteacher. Now retired, he lives in Kent.
