Geoffrey Wellum (1921–2018)
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Geoffrey Wellum was born in Walthamstow, England, and educated at Forest School. At age seventeen, he joined the RAF on a short-service commission in August 1939 and served with the 92nd Squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. In March 1942 he joined the 65[superscript th] Squadron as Flight mehr anzeigen Commander and, later that year, led a group of eight Spitfires in the relief of Malta during Operation Pedestal. He later served as a test pilot on Typhoon fighter planes and as a gunnery instructor until the end of the war. He remained with the RAF after the war, retiring in 1961 to take a position as a commodities broker in London. He now lives in Cornwall, England weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: September 2009. Credit: PeterPanPan.
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