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You never know your luck : Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: the extraordinary life of Keith 'skeets' Ogilvie DfC, by Keith C. Ogilvie
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- Summary
- When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith 'Skeets' Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and joined the Royal Air Force. A week later he was on a boat to England and a future he could not have imagined. Some unusual luck won him a transfer as a Spitfire pilot to No. 609 (White Rose) Squadron, just as the Battle of Britain was being joined. Over the next months he firmly established his credentials with six confirmed victories and two probables, along with several enemy aircraft damaged. Shot down over France the following July, he was fortunate to be treated for grievous injuries by top German surgeons. Skeets' home for the balance of the war was Stalag Luft III prison camp. He was the second last man out of the 'Great Escape' tunnel but was recaptured three days later. For reasons he never understood, Skeets was one of 23 escapees who were spared from being murdered by the Gestapo. 50 of his fellows were not so lucky. In London on a night off from flying duties, Skeets had been introduced to a fellow Canadian expatriate, Irene Lockwood. While he was testing the limits of his luck, his future wife was experiencing her own adventures in London, living through the daily stress of the Luftwaffe bombing campaign and working with MI12, and later as a wartime photographer with the RCAF. You Never Know Your Luck is the story of two modest people who found themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and who rose to the occasion like so many of their contemporaries
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 267 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781772032116
- Label
- You never know your luck : Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: the extraordinary life of Keith 'skeets' Ogilvie DfC
- Title
- You never know your luck
- Title remainder
- Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: the extraordinary life of Keith 'skeets' Ogilvie DfC
- Statement of responsibility
- by Keith C. Ogilvie
- Title variation
- Spitfire luck of Skeets Olgilvie
- Subject
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- Fighter pilots -- Canada -- Biography
- Fighter pilots -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Great Britain, Royal Air Force -- Airmen -- Biography
- Great Britain, Royal Air Force | Squadron, 609
- Ogilvie, Irene, 1919-2014
- Ogilvie, Keith, 1915-1998
- Biographies
- Prisoners of war -- Canada | Poland
- Stalag Luft III
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
- Prisoner-of-war escapes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith 'Skeets' Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and joined the Royal Air Force. A week later he was on a boat to England and a future he could not have imagined. Some unusual luck won him a transfer as a Spitfire pilot to No. 609 (White Rose) Squadron, just as the Battle of Britain was being joined. Over the next months he firmly established his credentials with six confirmed victories and two probables, along with several enemy aircraft damaged. Shot down over France the following July, he was fortunate to be treated for grievous injuries by top German surgeons. Skeets' home for the balance of the war was Stalag Luft III prison camp. He was the second last man out of the 'Great Escape' tunnel but was recaptured three days later. For reasons he never understood, Skeets was one of 23 escapees who were spared from being murdered by the Gestapo. 50 of his fellows were not so lucky. In London on a night off from flying duties, Skeets had been introduced to a fellow Canadian expatriate, Irene Lockwood. While he was testing the limits of his luck, his future wife was experiencing her own adventures in London, living through the daily stress of the Luftwaffe bombing campaign and working with MI12, and later as a wartime photographer with the RCAF. You Never Know Your Luck is the story of two modest people who found themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and who rose to the occasion like so many of their contemporaries
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ogilvie, Keith C.
- Dewey number
- 940.544941092
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ogilvie, Keith
- Ogilvie, Irene
- Stalag Luft III
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Prisoners of war
- Prisoner-of-war escapes
- Fighter pilots
- Fighter pilots
- World War, 1939-1945
- Label
- You never know your luck : Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: the extraordinary life of Keith 'skeets' Ogilvie DfC, by Keith C. Ogilvie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-263) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 267 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781772032116
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- ocn949869259
- (OCoLC)949869259
- Label
- You never know your luck : Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: the extraordinary life of Keith 'skeets' Ogilvie DfC, by Keith C. Ogilvie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-263) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 267 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781772032116
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- ocn949869259
- (OCoLC)949869259
Subject
- Fighter pilots -- Canada -- Biography
- Fighter pilots -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Great Britain, Royal Air Force -- Airmen -- Biography
- Great Britain, Royal Air Force | Squadron, 609
- Ogilvie, Irene, 1919-2014
- Ogilvie, Keith, 1915-1998
- Biographies
- Prisoners of war -- Canada | Poland
- Stalag Luft III
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
- Prisoner-of-war escapes
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