Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Douglas Bader/Poetry/D.H. Lawrence Message-ID: <7587@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 20 Jun 89 03:46:28 GMT References: <7480@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 13 Approved: military@att.att.com From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) > From: tom@babel.math.ufl.EDU (Tom J Gillen) > > I'm currently searching for any information concerning the legless British ace > Douglas Bader, whom I believe flew Spitfires in WWII. Any and all information > or references would be greatly appreciated. You could start with Paul Brickhill's "Reach for the Sky", a bography of Bader. "The Colditz Story" also talks about him some during his period as a POW (sorry, don't remember the author).