A Spitfire Girl: One of the World's Greatest Female Ata Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story

by Mary Ellis and Melody Foreman

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We visualise dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft and that person was Mary Wilkins.

Her story is one of the most remarkable and endearing of the war, as this young woman, serving as a ferry pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary, transported aircraft for the RAF, including fast fighter planes and huge four-engine bombers. On one occasion Mary delivered a Wellington bomber to an airfield, and as...Read more
  • ISBN10 1473895375
  • ISBN13 9781473895379
  • Publish Date 30 November 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Frontline Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 240
  • Language English