Best foot forward : the autobiography of the RAF's other legless fighter pilot / Colin Hodgkinson.
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TextPublisher: Barnsley, S.Yorkshire : Frontline Books, 2017Copyright date: ©1957Description: xv, 223 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781473897625; 1473897629Subject(s): Hodgkinson, Colin | Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- Biography | Air pilots, Military -- Great Britain -- BiographySummary: SECOND WORLD WAR. In the whole of the Second World War, only two men succeeded as operational fighter pilots in the RAF after losing both legs. Douglas Bader was one, and his story is well-known indeed, he has been described as one of the Royal Air Forces most famous pilots. The other was Colin Hodgkinson. Colin was injured in a flying accident whilst training with the Fleet Air Arm in 1939. He awoke in hospital to find that his right leg had been amputated at the thigh, whilst his left leg was severely injured. His face was also damaged and he had trouble with the sight in one eye. In the weeks that followed, Colins remaining leg refused to heal. Coolly, calculatingly, he made his decision: Chop the damned thing off and lets be done with it. Just nineteen at the time, Colin developed a burning determination to prove himself a normal man by becoming a fighter pilot and flying Spitfires.
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SECOND WORLD WAR. In the whole of the Second World War, only two men succeeded as operational fighter pilots in the RAF after losing both legs. Douglas Bader was one, and his story is well-known indeed, he has been described as one of the Royal Air Forces most famous pilots. The other was Colin Hodgkinson. Colin was injured in a flying accident whilst training with the Fleet Air Arm in 1939. He awoke in hospital to find that his right leg had been amputated at the thigh, whilst his left leg was severely injured. His face was also damaged and he had trouble with the sight in one eye. In the weeks that followed, Colins remaining leg refused to heal. Coolly, calculatingly, he made his decision: Chop the damned thing off and lets be done with it. Just nineteen at the time, Colin developed a burning determination to prove himself a normal man by becoming a fighter pilot and flying Spitfires.
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