The Resource A Spitfire girl, Mary Ellis ; with Melody Foreman
A Spitfire girl, Mary Ellis ; with Melody Foreman
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The item A Spitfire girl, Mary Ellis ; with Melody Foreman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item A Spitfire girl, Mary Ellis ; with Melody Foreman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- 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 76 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 she climbed out of the aircraft the RAF ground crew ran over to her and demanded to know where the pilot was! Mary said simply: 'I am the pilot!' Unconvinced the men searched the aircraft before they realised a young woman had indeed flown the bomber all by herself. This is her story
- Language
- eng
- Label
- A Spitfire girl
- Title
- A Spitfire girl
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Ellis ; with Melody Foreman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 76 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 she climbed out of the aircraft the RAF ground crew ran over to her and demanded to know where the pilot was! Mary said simply: 'I am the pilot!' Unconvinced the men searched the aircraft before they realised a young woman had indeed flown the bomber all by herself. This is her story
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ellis, Mary
- Dewey number
-
- 358.4'0092
- 358.40092
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Foreman, Melody
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ellis, Mary
- Women air pilots
- Air pilots, Military
- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Biography
- Label
- A Spitfire girl, Mary Ellis ; with Melody Foreman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781473895362
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 256 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473895362
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- A Spitfire girl, Mary Ellis ; with Melody Foreman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781473895362
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 256 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473895362
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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