ATA 1 The Triumph of the Human Spirit ~ That Is All That Need Be Said

Written By Kenneth Webb

Air Transport Auxiliary

The Triumph of the Human Spirit ~ That Is All That Need Be Said

The three faces of Reconciliation ~ Peace, Determination, and that iron will to build and rebuild the Bridges of shattered Civilisation

Calmness

Defiance

Resolution

ATA British Pilot Joy Lofthouse during the Second World War 1939-1945

VICTORY born of Bravery

Air Transport Auxiliary Officer Joy Lofthouse, a Pilot delivering Supermarine Spitfires direct from the Assembly Lines to RAF Fighter Stations and Royal Air Force Fighter and Bomber Stations across all Commands.

I suspect many of our ATA Pilots would have been only too happy for their aircraft to have been armed…

This Portraiture is by kind courtesy of the Spitfire Society and to whom all rights are reserved.

I am immensely proud that in 2024, our front line fighter RAF Pilots in the Royal Air Force are both men and women. And something else that is incredibly moving. In the Wikipedia link here, I learn that Ms Lofthouse née Gough flew 38 types of aircraft, and these included both fighters and the twin-engine and four-engine heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force.


22 July 2024
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Digital Art is by KTW unless otherwise credited

Portrait Image of Pilot Joy Lofthouse (Gough) by kind permission of the Spitfire Society

Joy Lofthouse (1923-2017)

Kenneth Webb

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.

https://www.kennwebb.com
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