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  • TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
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    TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
    SAMUEL DE KORTE
    During the Second World War, the Tuskegee Airmen had not one but two enemies to overcome: the German Luftwaffe and Jim Crow. In this book, the inspiring history of these men is recounted detailing the struggles the men faced at home and abroad. The Tuskegee Airmen were black American pilots who served in the Army Air Corps during the Second World War. However, before earning th...

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  • BEAUFIGHTER AND MOSQUITO OPERATIONS IN WWII
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    BEAUFIGHTER AND MOSQUITO OPERATIONS IN WWII
    ZBYŠEK NEČAS-PEMBERTON
    Zbyšek Nečas was just 18, and still a high school student, when he escaped from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia a month before the outbreak of war in 1939. He managed to make his way to Britain where he had a cousin. Nečas enlisted in the RAF in 1940, initially being posted as an interpreter at the Czech Depot. Some of his early duties involved the interrogation of capt...

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  • SPITFIRE, MUSTANG AND THE 'MEREDITH EFFECT'
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    SPITFIRE, MUSTANG AND THE 'MEREDITH EFFECT'
    PETER SPRING
    By the mid-1930s the obstacles to high speed that aircraft designers faced included the question of cooling the engine. This was a big challenge that those working on the new fast aeroplanes entering service as the war clouds gathered over Europe had to consider, as the drag from the system increased as a square of the speed. Ducted systems were designed which lowered drag, but...

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  • MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE SIR CHARLES PORTAL
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    MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE SIR CHARLES PORTAL
    RICHARD MICHAEL MILBURN
    Charles Frederick Algernon Portal was born in Hungerford, England, in 1893. One of seven brothers, Portal developed a fierce competitive streak and a steely determination from an early age. Known by all who knew him as ‘Peter’, Portal enlisted in the Army at the outbreak of the First World War as a dispatch rider, being mentioned in General French’s very first dispatch. Portal’...

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  • MOSQUITO INTRUDERS - TARGET BURMA
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    MOSQUITO INTRUDERS - TARGET BURMA
    JEREMY WALSH
    The exploits of the Mosquito crews in Burma, skimming at low-level and at speed along rivers and over treetops to their targets, are the stuff of legend. Surprisingly, however, only five RAF squadrons ever flew these operations. Mosquito Intruders – Target Burma explores the achievements of these intruder squadrons, as well as the costs to the men who flew and supported them. T...

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  • SPECIAL OPERATIONS CONSOLIDATED B-24 LIBERATORS
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    SPECIAL OPERATIONS CONSOLIDATED B-24 LIBERATORS
    WILLIAM WOLF
    Despite being America’s most produced bomber, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator has forever flown in the shadow of its more famous and glamorous B-17 rival. The workmanlike B-24 performed multiple unheralded roles in all theatres beyond its also multiple offensive missions, making it the war’s most versatile heavy bomber. Besides its offensive bombing, anti-submarine, and mining ...

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  • FORWARD AIR BASES IN EUROPE FROM D-DAY TO THE BALTIC
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    FORWARD AIR BASES IN EUROPE FROM D-DAY TO THE BALTIC
    TREVOR STONE
    The largely sea-borne invasion of Northern France in June 1944, Operation Overlord, is acknowledged as one of the key actions which hastened the end of the Second World War. The RAF played a vital part in the landings. It then supported the subsequent advance of Montgomery’s 21st Army, and the Allies as a whole, through France, Belgium, Holland and into Germany. Following the b...

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  • THE HURRICANE PILOT WHO BECAME A GESTAPO AGENT
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    THE HURRICANE PILOT WHO BECAME A GESTAPO AGENT
    M J MORGAN
    Tucked away in the archives of the Museum for Transport and Technology in Berlin is an old photograph of a Hawker Hurricane on public display. The image must have been taken before the night of 23/24 November 1943, when the museum and the greater part of its collection – including the Hurricane – were destroyed in a RAF bombing raid. The aircraft in the photograph bore a squadr...

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  • POLISH AIR FORCE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT, 1940-1942
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    POLISH AIR FORCE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT, 1940-1942
    PETER SIKORA
    Polish fighter pilots received their baptism of fire over their own country in September 1939, when they were overwhelmed by the aerial might of Germany and the Soviet Union. Despite this, they claimed over 120 enemy aircraft destroyed. When the Polish Air Force was reborn in France, the same men fought against the same enemy, yet with more experience and with better understand...

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  • HAWKER'S SECRET PROJECTS
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    HAWKER'S SECRET PROJECTS
    CHRISTOPHER BUDGEN
    Hawker Aircraft Ltd at Kingston was arguably the most successful and long-lasting manufacturer of military aircraft in Great Britain and Europe. In its various evolved manifestations – Hawker Aircraft, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, British Aerospace – its output of war winning aircraft, mainly fighters, was unsurpassed. From the Hart and Hurricane through the Hunter, Harrier and Ha...

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  • AIR BATTLE FOR LENINGRAD
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    AIR BATTLE FOR LENINGRAD
    DMITRY DEGTEV / DMITRY ZUBOV
    The Siege of Leningrad was one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War. The second largest and most populous city in the Soviet Union, Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, was one of the three priority targets of the German invasion, Operation Barbarossa. A total of 333 large military factories were concentrated in Leningrad and, accordingly, 565,000 workers lived there, p...

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  • THE RAF'S ARMOURERS
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    THE RAF'S ARMOURERS
    TONY LAMSDALE / PHIL APPLEBY
    It is said that one of the earliest trades in the world is that of the armorer. Historically, it is a profession dated slightly after prostitution, but well before banking! Since the birth of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 through to the modern Royal Air Force, the role of the armorer has been pivotal. Not for nothing did the founder of the RAF, Lord Trenchard, once declare: ‘T...

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  • DESERT CATS
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    DESERT CATS
    DANNY BURT
    On 2 August 1990, Saddam Hussein’s armed forces invaded and occupied Kuwait. A swift international response followed, which, led by the United States and the United Kingdom, saw the formation of a coalition that formed the largest military alliance seen since the end of the Second World War. Among the many RAF units deployed under Operation Granby, the codename given to the Bri...

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  • JAMES STEWART AT WAR
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    JAMES STEWART AT WAR
    PAVEL TÜRK
    Reveals how Stewart was the presiding officer of the court martial of a pilot and navigator who accidentally bombed Zürich in Switzerland. James Stewart was already a Hollywood star when the United States went to war in December 1941. Having received an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1940 for his role in The Philadelphia Story, he had become a familiar face to movie goers by t...

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  • MILITARY LOW-LEVEL FLYING FROM F-4 PHANTOM TO F-35 LIGHTNING II
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    MILITARY LOW-LEVEL FLYING FROM F-4 PHANTOM TO F-35 LIGHTNING II
    SCOTT RATHBONE
    The United Kingdom has some of the most dramatic landscapes that can be used by pilots to train in the vital skill of low flying. Aircrew preparing for operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and other potential war zones frequently hone their skills flying through the valleys of the UK, sometimes at near subsonic speed. In Cumbria, as well as other major training areas within the Unit...

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  • FACES OF THE FEW
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    FACES OF THE FEW
    DILIP SARKAR
    There remains an enduring fascination with the Battle of Britain, and the RAF aircrew who fought and won this unprecedented aerial conflict, immortalized by Churchill in August 1940 as ‘The Few’. Unlike today, when photography is a huge part of people’s daily lives, not least because of mobile phone cameras and the sharing of images via social media, back then photography invol...

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  • MOSQUITO NIGHT INTRUDER ACE
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    MOSQUITO NIGHT INTRUDER ACE
    DANNY BURT
    Bertie Rex O’Bryen Hoare was born on 6 June 1912. Having been educated at Harrow and Wye Agricultural College, ‘Sammy’, as he was often known to friends and family, entered the RAF on a short-service commission in 1936. In October 1938, while piloting a Fairy Battle Bertie sustained a serious injury from a piece of loose piece of aircraft cowling. This incident resulted in him ...

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  • THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN ON THE BIG SCREEN
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    THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN ON THE BIG SCREEN
    DILIP SARKAR
    During the Second World War, the British movie industry produced a number of films concerning the war, all of which were, by necessity, heavily myth-laden and propagandised. Foremost among these productions was The First of the Few, which was the biggest grossing film of 1942. In the immediate post-war period, to start with there were no British aviation war films. The first to...

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  • FREE FRENCH SPITFIRE HERO
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    FREE FRENCH SPITFIRE HERO
    DILIP SARKAR / JAN LEEMING
    René Mouchotte was born on 21 August 1914, at Saint Mande, Paris. He joined the Armée de l’Air for his period of military service in 1934, obtaining his flying brevet. Though Mouchotte returned to civilian life, he was called up at the outbreak of war in 1939, becoming a Sergeant-Pilot instructor in North Africa. When France capitulated in June 1940, Mouchotte and fellow pilot ...

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  • MILITARY AIR POWER IN EUROPE PREPARING FOR WAR
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    MILITARY AIR POWER IN EUROPE PREPARING FOR WAR
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare. Battle fronts had become immobilized in the grip of machine-guns and heavy artillery, leading to slaughter on an unprecedented scale. The end of the war saw exhausted governments extricating themselves from the carnage, but some leaders were concerned that, sooner or later, another major war would follow. As France’s Ma...

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  • THE RAF'S CROSS-CHANNEL OFFENSIVE
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    THE RAF'S CROSS-CHANNEL OFFENSIVE
    JOHN STARKEY
    The story of the RAF, and in particular Fighter Command, during the Battle of Britain has been told many times. It is a tale of the gallant pilots of ‘The Few’, in their Hurricanes and Spitfires, with the nation’s back to the wall, fighting off the Luftwaffe’s airborne assault against enormous odds. But the story of Fighter Command’s operations immediately after the Battle of B...

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  • HITLER'S AIR BRIDGES
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    HITLER'S AIR BRIDGES
    DMITRY DEGTEV / DMITRY ZUBOV
    Much has been written about the famous fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe which proved so successful in the invasion of Poland, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain and in the early operations in Eastern Europe. Little attention, however, has been focused on the Luftwaffe’s transport aircraft which played a vital role in supplying German forces in every theatre. In ea...

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  • CHINOOK CREW 'CHICK'
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    CHINOOK CREW 'CHICK'
    LIZ MCCONAGHY
    Liz McConaghy, from a small town in County Down, spent a total of seventeen years flying with the RAF’s Chinook Fleet. Aged just 21, she was the youngest aircrew member to deploy to Iraq and was also the only female ‘crewman’ on the Chinook wing for four years. In her astounding career Liz McConaghy completed two deployments to Iraq followed by ten deployments to Helmand provin...

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  • SPITFIRE DOWN
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    SPITFIRE DOWN
    DILIP SARKAR
    Profoundly moved by the stories of wartime casualties as a child, Dilip Sarkar has since spent a lifetime reconstructing the lives of many of the fallen and is passionate about recording and sharing this very personal hidden history. In Spitfire Down he explores the stories of thirteen pilots who failed to return, all killed, either in action or flying accidents, while a fourte...

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  • ARISE TO CONQUER
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    ARISE TO CONQUER
    I.R. GLEED
    Born in 1916, after learning to fly as a civilian, Ian Richard Gleed was granted a RAF commission in 1936. He completed training on Christmas Day that year, being posted to 46 Squadron which was equipped with the Gloster Gauntlet. Through much of his RAF service the diminutive Gleed was known as ‘Widge’, short for ‘Wizard Midget’ on account of his excessive use of the word ‘wiz...

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  • MOSQUITO INTRUDER PILOT
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    MOSQUITO INTRUDER PILOT
    JEREMY WALSH
    This illustrated WW2 biography chronicles the wartime experiences of a young Royal Air Force pilot who flew into combat over Europe and Burma. Ben Walsh lied about his age to join the RAF, determined to play his part in the Second World War. He volunteered to be an intruder pilot, flying low level operations in the dark. Ben flew ops for three years, starting in the skies over ...

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  • THE FLYING SIKH
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    THE FLYING SIKH
    STEPHEN BARKER
    The Flying Sikh tells the unique story of the only Sikh airman to fly with the RFC and the RAF during the First World War. It is the remarkable account of one man’s struggle to enlist, against discrimination, and then his service as a fighter pilot over the battlefields of Flanders. This book represents the only detailed study of an Indian national enlisting in Britain’s armed ...

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  • A SPITFIRE NAMED CONNIE
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    A SPITFIRE NAMED CONNIE
    'BLACK' ROBERTSON
    A Spitfire Named Connie is an exciting rollercoaster of a story. ‘Robbie’ Robertson begins his RAF training during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. As he learns his trade, he is soon rubbing shoulders with Fighter Command heroes, amongst them Brian Kingcome, ‘Ginger’ Lacey and Bob Stanford Tuck. Moving from 111 to 72 Squadron, he opens his account against the Luftwaffe in t...

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  • THE HIGH PEAK DAMBUSTER
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    THE HIGH PEAK DAMBUSTER
    FRANK PLESZAK
    Operation Chastise, the audacious attack on the dams in the Ruhr valley, is arguably one of the most famous airborne attacks in history. During the night of 16/17 May 1943, 133 men in nineteen specially-adapted Lancasters – the famous Dambusters – set off to attack six dams deep in the heart of Germany. Eight of the bombers, and 56 of the aircrew, did not come home. Three of th...

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  • BADER’S SPITFIRE WING
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    BADER’S SPITFIRE WING
    DILIP SARKAR
    "Whether you have feelings about Bader or not, this is an excellent book to gain insight into the summer of 1941 when, ready or not, the RAF went on the offensive."—The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation On 30 August 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command’s No.12 Group were requested to reinforce 11 Group and intercept a Luft...

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