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You Never Know Your Luck: Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: The Extraordinary Life of Keith ‘Skeets’ Ogilvie DFC

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When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn’t accept him as a pilot in the summertime of 1939, Keith ‘Skeets’ Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and joined the Royal Air Force. A week later he was once on a boat to England and a future he could not have imagined. Some atypical luck won him a transfer as a Spitfire pilot to No. 609 (White Rose) Squadron, just as the Battle of Britain was once being joined. Over the next months he firmly established his credentials with six confirmed victories and two probables, together with several enemy aircraft damaged. Shot down over France the following July, he was once fortunate to be treated for grievous injuries by top German surgeons. Skeets’ home for the balance of the war was once Stalag Luft III prison camp. He was once the second one last man out of the ‘Great Escape’ tunnel but was once recaptured three days later. For reasons he never understood, Skeets was once 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. Whilst he was once testing the limits of his luck, his future wife was once experiencing her own adventures in London, living through the day by day 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 strange circumstances, and who rose to the occasion like such a lot of of their contemporaries. Skeets’ and Irene’s own words and memories are the foundations on which the experience of wartime unfolds. A unique viewpoint from individuals who never failed to wonder at their own fortune.

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