Spitfire Pilot: Lou Spence: A Story of Bravery, Leadership and Love

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Fighter pilot Lou Spences story is one of bravery, leadership and love. Author John Spence draws on his fathers wartime diaries, which he addressed to his young wife back in Perth. During World War 2, Lou Spence few in the Middle East against Rommels forces, then defended Australia, flying spitfires against the Japanese. A courageous pilot, he went on to lead the RAAF 77 Squadron of Mustangs in the Korean War.

A replica of Lou Spences Spitfire is in the Darwin Aviation Museum.

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John Spence FRS, now a professor of physics and the author of Lightspeed (OUP), was four years old when Wing Commander Lou Spence, DFC and bar, Legion of Merit was killed in Korea in 1950 at the age of 33.