CHURCHILL'S NAVIGATOR

摘要

This feature has been abridged and adapted from Churchill's Navigator by Air Cdre John Mitchell lvo dfc afc with Sean Feast. Hardback, 216 pages and illustrated, the book charts John Mitchell's remarkable career from serving as an RAFVR officer to operations with 58 Squadron on AW Whitleys and a ditching in the North Sea. From 1943 he became a member of the elite crew flying Prime Minister Winston Churchill around in Avro York Ascalon. The book describes flying in North Africa and taking the PM to the crucial conferences at Teheran and Yalta. Another passenger entrusted to John's crew was 'General Lyon', the codename for King George VI.