The amazing story of one of the 'Few', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot
down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain. This is a fighter
pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When
the Germans were blitzing their way across France, Pilot Officer Tom
Neil had just received his first posting - to 249 Squadron. Nineteen
years old, fresh from training at Montrose on Hawker Audax biplanes he
was soon to be pitch forked into the maelstrom of air fighting on which
the survival of Britain was to depend. By the end of the year he had
shot down 13 enemy aircraft, seen many of his friends killed, injured or
burned, and was himself a wary and accomplished fighter pilot.