The 'Real' Spitfire Pilot: Flight Lieutenant D.M. Crook Dfc's Original Unpublished Manuscript Crook Dfc Flight Lieutenant D. M.

Flight Lieutenant David Moore Crook DFC's original Spitfire Pilot ranks among the finest first-hand accounts published during the Second World War, particularly for a Battle of Britain airman. However, he did not survive the war: his Spitfire inexplicably crashed into the sea off the Scottish coast on 18 December 1944. It rightly remains a sought-after classic.A Spitfire pilot during the epic aerial battles of the summer of 1940, 'DMC' became a decorated ace.

DMC's book was based on his entries in two Stationary Office lined notebooks, hastily scribbled between sorties, and A married man and father, he remains missing.First published under wartime conditions in 1942, Spitfire Pilot was not heavily censored - unlike Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC's similar first-hand account Spitfire The Experiences of a Fighter Pilot, published the same year.