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Best Foot Forward : The Autobiography of the RAF's Other Legless Fighter Pilot by Colin Hodgkinson; Archibald McIndoe is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In the whole of the Second World War, only two men succeeded as operational fighter pilots in the RAF after losing both legs. Douglas Bader was one, and his story is well-known indeed, he has been described as one of the Royal Air Forces most famous pilots. The other was Colin Hodgkinson. Colin was injured in a flying accident whilst training with the Fleet Air Arm in 1939\. He awoke in hospital to find that his right leg had been amputated at the thigh, whilst his left leg was severely injured. His face was also damaged and he had trouble with the sight in one eye. In the weeks that followed, Colins remaining leg refused to heal. Coolly, calculatingly, he made his decision: Chop the damned thing off and lets be done with it. Just nineteen at the time, Colin developed a burning determination to prove himself a normal man by becoming a fighter pilot and flying Spitfires. With Douglas Bader as his example, and brilliant surgeons such as Sir Archibald McIndoe treating him, Colin achieved his aim with a hand-tailored pair of tin legs. He proved himself as a fighter pilot many times over, until the war ended, for him at least, as a German prisoner of war. Although repatriated in 1944 as

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Author

Colin Hodgkinson; Archibald McIndoe

Publisher

Frontline Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781473897656

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography