Voices in Flight

Voices in Flight RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII

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Publisher's Synopsis

This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes and Defiants in England against the Luftwaffe and from Malta 1940-45 against the Regia Aeronautica. Their story is told using combat reports and first person accounts from RAF, German and Commonwealth pilots who fought in the skies in France in 1940, in England during the Battle of Britain, and in the great air offensives over Occupied Europe from 1942 onwards. - - Chapters include the stories of Wing Commander D. R. S. Bader, Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert æSailorÆ Malan, Oberleutnant Ulrich Steinhilper, Flight Lieutenant H. M. Stephen, Squadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck, æJohnnyÆ Johnson, Squadron Leader M. N. Crossley, Squadron Leader A. McKellar, æCowboyÆ Blatchford and Squadron Leader D. H. Smith, an Australian veteran of the Battle of Malta and many others whose names have now become legendary. - -

Book information

ISBN: 9781783831920
Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation
Imprint: Pen & Sword Aviation
Pub date:
DEWEY: 940.5449410922
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 250 , 32 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 780g
Height: 243mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 27mm