ILLUSTRATIONS

Original Plates

Frontispiece: A portrait of the author (Reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Captain Cuthbert Orde)

1st July 1940: Johnny, Michael, Pip and Gordon

August 1940: Johnny, Mac, Michael, Geoff, the C.O., Noel, D.M.C. and Shorty

13th August 1940: D.M.C.’s Spitfire being rearmed after the fight above Weymouth

13th August 1940: Some of the Squadron just after the Weymouth fight (Photograph by Wing Commander F. J. Howell, D.F.C., lent by his father, Mr. H. Howell)

September 1940: D.M.C. and Geoff

15th September 1940: The wreckage of the Dornier at Victoria Station (Planet News Ltd. photograph)

September 1940: Just about to take off for one of the London battles

30th September: The Me. 109 (From D.M.C.’s camera gun film)

The Drone

The crew of a Heinkel (Photograph found on a German prisoner)

Frank and Sydney (News Chronicle photograph)

New Plates

Glenwood the family home

Beckside

David with his brothers and sisters

David at Thornwick Bay

David aged seventeen

David before take-off

David between sorties

David beside his Spitfire R6699

Johnny Curchin, Frank Howell and David

Tadeusz ‘Novi’ Nowierski

Shorty, Geoff Gaunt and David

David with Dorothy, family and friends

David and Dorothy

Marriage Announcement

Three generations of the Crook family

Dorothy, David and baby Nicholas

David and Rosemary

David’s three children

Dorothy’s favourite picture of her husband, David