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Ron Pottinger started the war as a rifleman in the Royal Fusiliers, then transferred to the Royal Air Force, where he began flying the 7.5-ton Hawker Typhoon. He flew dozens of dangerous ground attack missions over occupied Europe through bad weather, heavy flak, and enemy fighters before being shot down and taken prisoner. I could see a carpet of twinkling lights from the ack ack all along the rail sidings which bordered the canal. I dove onto these with my cannons going. Then suddenly, when the attention of all the guns turned on me, I realised how foolhardy I was being. I ran the guns along the row of rail trucks - opened the throttle wide and pulled straight up for the clouds - with tracers crossing in front and on all sides of the plane.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Military history

• Full title: Soldier in the Cockpit
• Subtitle: From Rifles to Typhoons in WWII
• Author: Ronald William Pottinger
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• EAN: 9780811733687
• ID: 04722664
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Weight: 416 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 153 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. March 2007

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