BILLY DRAKE, FIGHTER LEADER

Limited edition bookplate 41/50 signed by

Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC (BoB)
Squadron Leader Neville Duke OBE DFC** AFC
Wing Commander Gordon Conway DFC
Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Stevens (BoB)
Flight Lieutenant Mike Croskell  (BoB)
Flight Lieutenant Bert Horden
Group Captain Peter Ottewill GM AFC
Flight Lieutenant Johnnie Burden
Flight Lieutenant Keith Lawrence DFC (BoB)
Christopher Shores

Grub Street. First edition 2002. 160 pages with lots of photos.

Very Fine condition hardback book and dustjacket. Nearly as new. With a certificate from Vector.

Billy Drake went to France in 1939 with 1 Squadron, notching up his first victories in the spring of 1940. He fought the Battle of Britain with 213 and 91 Squadrons then was posted to the Western Desert to fly the famous shark mouth Kittyhawks of 112 Squadron. He led a Spitfire Wing in Malta and then a Typhoon Wing in 1944 accumulating more than 20 victories in his distinguished career.

An extremely colourful personality, this is a great account of Billy’s experiences, the characters he knew and flew with and the often amusing highlights of his RAF career and adventures afterwards. The bookplate is signed by pilots who flew with him at various stages of his career.