Memories of the youngest RAF pilot in the Battle of Britain, who has died at ...
(World News UK)

HE was the youngest of the Few - aged just 18 when he took to the skies in a Spitfire to fight for his country in the Battle of Britain. Fellow pilots nicknamed the fresh-faced youngster `Boy`, but Geoffrey Wellum did the work of a man. Rex Features The hero shot down four German planes, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross then, in his later years, wrote a best-selling memoir that brought the desperate days of war back to searing, vivid life. His death on Wednesday aged 96 means there are just nine men left whose RAF exploits thwarted Hitler´s invasion and led Winston Churchill to declare: `Never was so much owed by so many to so few.` Ken Wilkinson one of the last four surviving Spitfire...