Geoffrey Wellum

 We have a lot to thank them for RIP

He was on our local news program several times. 

One of the few. 

He seems to have been in good health as he was talking about being at Westminster in September for a service. Hopefully that was the case. So few left now 😢. They gave so much, as did their families 😢. Thank you RIP

Geoffrey - RIP

It's becoming a very elite little Club now. Bless them all!

I might try and get a copy of his book "First Light" which has long been on the best seller lists. It no doubt makes a very interesting read, especially when you think the average age of the pilots was just twenty. They made such a huge sacrifice for us. 

An uncle is in a home with a navigator from a Halifax bomber. His accounts make you shiver and shudder. I wonder would i ever have been that courageous/fearless? They do make him wonder now but he didn't think anything of it at the time just got on with it. Being fired at, being on fire, limping back without all engines, emergency landings without undercarriage  😲😲😲.  So not just one offs. Brave and courageous men. No less the women who flew the planes to where they were needed, who sometimes got attacked. God bless them all.

May they soar with the eagles.

agree with all above. Found this trailer for a film called Spitfire and it has Geoffrey Wellum on straight away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxgEi8gEsE

If you need some good summer reading then his book First Light is excellent.

My father in law was a navigator, he left his log book to our son. They were so young. To Geoffrey Wellum, to all of them - Thank you. We owe you so much.