I Wish I Had Your Wings by Angus Mansfield

Author:Angus Mansfield [Mansfield, Angus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750966887
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

Apart from the Spitfires including Wellum’s aboard Furious still waiting to get away, a pilot on board HMS Indomitable was also in the cockpit of his Sea Hurricane waiting to take off:

The wind was chancy and we were to be boosted off. I was in position on the catapult, engine running. The flight deck engineer waggled the ailerons to draw my attention to something or other and I looked out over the port side to see what he wanted. As I did so I stared in horror beyond him to where the Eagle was steaming level with us, half a mile away, with smoke and steam pouring from her. She quickly took on a heavy list and the air shook with a series of muffled explosions. There had hardly been time to assimilate the fact that she had been hit before she had capsized and sank. When I took off a few minutes later I was still numbed by what I had seen. It had come so completely without warning.

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