Jimmy Corbin

Jimmy Corbin was a schoolteacher before training as a pilot. Joining a frontline Spitfire squadron in the summer of 1940, he flew operationally in the Battle of Britain, later instructing at an Operational Training Unit before being posted to North Africa as a Spitfire pilot.

Jimmy Corbin was a schoolteacher before training as a pilot. Joining a frontline Spitfire squadron in the summer of 1940, he flew operationally in the Battle of Britain, later instructing at an Operational Training Unit before being posted to North Africa as a Spitfire pilot. See less