In a career of just 30 years, he flew 487 types of plane, carried 2407 desk landings and 2721 catapult launched. He met most of the senior figures of the time, including many of the Nazis, and was there when history was being made.
In April 1945, Brown, who was fluent in German, interrogated Josef Kramer, commandant of Belsen concentration camp; two months later he was interrogating Hermann Göring.
As an aviation author, historian, commentator and pilot Paul Beaver is an expert in his field and Winkles’s authorised biographer. This talk will focus on Winkles’s interactions with the Nazi senior ranks and include a Q&A session at the end.
Paul Beaver is an aviation historian, broadcaster and writer who specialises in the 1930s and 1940s. He is very much a hands-on historian with his own vintage aeroplane company, Monty’s Messenger Ltd, which owns and operates a Miles Messenger marked as Field Marshal Montgomery’s aeroplane at the time of the D-Day. Other aeroplane types in his log book include the Spitfire and Mustang.
Paul’s original research into aircraft carriers and the development in their technological advances let to eh publication of the book The British Aircraft Carrier. Research included interviews with over 100 Fleet Air Arm veterans and led to a subsequent book and this, in turn, Brough an invitation to join Jane’s Information Group an Managing Editor of Yearbooks.
Paul Beaver will give his talk at Salisbury Arts Centre on October 6 at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £10, available online at www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk.