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Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox
Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox
Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox
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Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox

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Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens

Canadian World War II pilot Charley Fox, now in his late eighties, has had a thrilling life, especially on the day in July 1944 in France when he spotted a black staff car, the kind usually employed to drive high-ranking Third Reich dignitaries. Already noted for his skill in dive-bombing and strafing the enemy, Fox went in to attack the automobile. As it turned out, the car contained famed German General Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, and Charley succeeded in wounding him.

Rommel, who at the time was the Germans’ supreme military commander in France orchestrating the Nazis’ resistance to the D-day invasion, was never the same after that. Author Steve Pitt focuses on this seminal event in Charley Fox’s life and in the war, but he also provides fascinating aspects of the period, including profiles of noted ace pilots Buzz Beurling and Billy Bishop, Jr., and Great Escape architect Walter Floody, as well as sidebars about Hurricanes, Spitfires, and Messerschmitts.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherDundurn
Release dateJun 9, 2008
ISBN9781459721043
Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox
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Steve Pitt

Stevie Pitt's first children's book, Rain Tonight: A Tale of Hurricane Hazel,was nominated for the Silver Birch, Red Cedar, and Rocky Mountain awards. He has been published in many magazines and newspapers, including Toronto Life, Canadian Family, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star. Currently he lives in Toronto.

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    Obviously written for school children!
    Interesting historical data on training.
    No details on the model of Spitfire flown or on the model of German aircraft encountered. Useless on these points from an historical point of view!

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