Bill Corfield had just one ambition - to be a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force like his elder brother, Jimmy. As a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, he looked up to his brother when he was home on leave in the early days of the war; and was proud to see his brother in uniform. In a kind of way it was a sort of 'Biggles' hero worship. Yet, in those dark early days, bombing was in its infancy, and aircraft were very poor.

Pilot Officer Jimmy Corfield was a pilot with No. 21 Squadron at Royal Air Force Watton in Norfolk, flying Blenheim Ivs; and during the early part of the war the squadron played a prominent part in No.2 Group’s offensive against shipping in the English Channel and the North Sea. It was a most hazardous occupation attacking daylight targets on low-level strikes.

Jimmy could see the hero worship in his younger brother each time he was home on leave, and knowing the odds of survival were very slim, he tried his best to put him off joining the Royal Air Force as a pilot.

"You're not cut out to be a bomber pilot so try the other Services," he told his younger brother many times. But, Bill would mutter under his breath and it only made him more determined to be a pilot. If his brother could do it, thought Bill, then he would also. "We might even get to fly together if the war lasts long enough," Bill used to say excitedly to his elder brother who would smile and shake his head.

"Things are so different Bill when you are up there with flak all around you - fear grips you, and you haven't got the right temperament."

"It doesn't matter," said young Bill. That was to be the last conversation he had with his brother Jimmy ... The rest of this story along with other interesting, chilling and thought provoking true stories can be found in the book Ghost Stations™ 4

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Published by: L'AQUILA (ANZIO Group)       Price: £9.95 each

200 pages and around 46 Photographs/Illustrations

ISBN-13: 978-1-871448-13-9