From Dunkirk to AFDU: The Diary and Log Book of Test Pilot Leonard Thorne 1940-45
by
Leonard Thorne, Gill Griffin, Barry Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The 20-year-old Len Thorne joined the RAF in May 1940. After two hectic tours of operational duty as a fighter pilot (including some desperately dangerous low-level flying at Dunkirk) he was posted to AFDU (Air Fighting Development Unit) and remained there as a test pilot for the rest of the war....