Entry Text: | GREEN, Gus. Water Wings. 216p., illus. Lewes: Book Guild, 1996. ISBN: 0863329691.
Green volunteered for the FAA in 1939 and served as an Observer. He was sent to 831 Squadron and flew in Albacores. 831 joined Indomitable and served in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean. After she suffered battle damage in the Pedestal convoy she returned to the UK, while Green was appointed naval liaison officer at RAF Bone in Algeria. He served there for almost two years before returning to the UK as an instructor. |
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