Three Passions and a Lucky Penny: An Autobiography By Eric Stephenson Tapa blanda - 2008

ACT, Australia: Air Power Development Center, 2008. New book, 160 pages. For nearly 30 years Dr Eric Stephenson was a medical officer in the RAAF, rising to be Director General Air Force Health Services with the rank of Air Vice-Marshal. Even in retirement, he continued working in the Defence health field, until his association with the RAAF reached the extraordinary span of more than 50 years. In this autobiography he describes his early life in England, where the three great loves of his life - Freda, the Air Force and medicine - had their beginning. During World War II, his pursuit of all three almost came to an abrupt end twice, depending first on the lucky flip of a coin and, later on, although through surviving the experience of being shot down over Germany in a Lancaster bomber. His return from captivity at the end of the war allowed him to pick up where he left off with fiance Freda, and saw him become a country doctor in Norfolk. In 1955 he also resumed wearing Air Force blue, only this time… Leer más

Canberra, Tuggeranong: Air Power Development Centre, RAAF, 2008. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, black & white & colour text-photos, minor edgewear. 160 pp. For nearly 30 years, Eric Stephenson was a medical officer in the RAAF. He describes his early life in England, where the three great loves of his life - Freda, the Air Force and medicine - had their beginning. During World War 2, he was shot down over Germany in a Lancaster bomber. His return from captivity at the end of the war allowed him to resume life with fiancee Freda, and he became a country doctor in Norfolk. In 1955 he resumed wearing Air Force blue, but in Australia. From the Office of Air Force History's oral history program.