This 85 minute video is the remarkable recollection of Ellis Knowlton. He recalls in great detail many incidents from WW2 including training in South Africa and the Middle East, and operations / sorties as a fighter rec pilot flying Spitfire MK 9s with 208 (My dad's Squadron). Post he obtained funding to study at University for a science degree and flew with 608 Aux Air Squadron.
It was recorded in 2009 when he was aged 87. 208 Squadron Assoc website records that he died last year.
Flight Lieutenant Ellis Knowlton
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Because of idleness on my part, I did not mention that he grew-up half a mile from the Supermarine factory in Southampton where his cousin was an apprentice toolmaker at the outset of the war and witnessed the bombing of that factory.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/...f-Britain.html