Group Captain Bobby Oxspring DFC & Two Bars, AFC (22 May 1919 – 8 August 1989), author of Spitfire Command, saw action in many of the most famous battles of the Second World War, including Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain.
Born in Hampstead, London, Oxspring flew throughout the Battle of Britain. He was promoted to flying officer on 3 September 1940, and on 25 October was shot down in Spitfire X4170 near Capel, Kent. On 8 November 1940 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Known as one of the battle’s great aces, he was one of The Few selected by Fighter Command to have a portrait drawn by Cuthbert Orde, sitting for it on 9 December 1940.
Spitfire Command
The astounding memoir of one of the great Spitfire pilots of World War Two.
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