AT 11.15 ON a sunny Sunday morning, 3 September 1939, Frank Wootton took a break from mowing his lawn and tuned into the BBC to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain confirm what the nation was dreading: that Britain was ‘now at war with Germany’. The following morning he volunteered himself at the RAF Recruitment Centre in Brighton.
A successful commercial artist with a passion for aircraft, Wootton wanted to fly but Air Commodore Harald Peake suggested that he would better serve the effort by) in what some considered an act of artistic snobbery.
