Spitfire Pilot Quotes

“About this time we received a visit from Lord Trenchard. He seemed remarkably young for a man who commanded the R.A.F. in the last war, and he chatted to us for a long time in a very paternal and charming manner, congratulated us on our successes, and said that the only way to win this war was to give the Hun such hell as he had never had before and would never want again. We all felt that this was remarkably good advice, to be followed whenever possible.”
― David M. Crook, Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain

“Every day the Germans used to fly serenely over Tours, bomb the city at leisure and fly back again, while nobody raised a finger to stop them, and the French pilots sat in the bar and drank their vermouth, with a lot of brand new fighters standing on the aerodrome outside. Incredible but true.”
― David M. Crook, Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain

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― David M. Crook, Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain

“Their hatred of the Germans was quieter and more deadly than I have ever seen before.”
― David M. Crook, Spitfire Pilot