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Fighter Boys

Author : Patrick Bishop
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174994
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Fighter Boys written by Patrick Bishop and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitler’s advancing forces with a heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never before seen, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishop re-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating, exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words, the pilots describe what it was like to bale out from a stricken plane, to go into battle in the face of overwhelming odds, to hear the screams of a comrade as he went down in flames. With a riveting, taut narrative, Fighter Boys relates how those young heroes changed the course of World War II—and the history of the modern world.

Last of the Ten Fighter Boys

Author : Jimmy Corbin
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752468367
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Last of the Ten Fighter Boys written by Jimmy Corbin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, 66 Squadron's commanding officer, Squadron Leader Athol Forbes, asked ten of his pilots to record their experiences of flying one of the greatest aerial battles ever waged. The Ten Fighter Boys, published in 1942, comprised the first-hand accounts of pilot officers and sergeant pilots from all walks of life among them was Sergeant Jimmy Corbin, who wrote the third chapter. He was 23 – old by pilot standards – and, like the rest of the squadron, based at Biggin Hill, Kent. Now, sixty years later, Flight Lieutenant Jimmy Corbin, Spitfire pilot, tells his extraordinary wartime story. He describes how an ordinary working-class boy from Maidstone was propelled into the thick of action in the skies over Kent during the summer and autumn of 1940. As the sole survivor of the original ' Ten Fighter Boys', Jimmy's story is all the more poignant now that the men who fought the Battle of Britain pass from living memory.

Fighter Boy

Author : Barry Sutton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445612240
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Fighter Boy written by Barry Sutton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Britain memoir of Hurricane pilot Barry Sutton, DFC.

Gunner Girls And Fighter Boys

Author : Mary Gibson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781855943
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Gunner Girls And Fighter Boys written by Mary Gibson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible story of ordinary women living extraordinary lives, from the bestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts. London, 1939. As the Blitz hits London, two sisters from Bermondsey find their lives changed beyond all recognition. May is known to her family as the homing pigeon because of her uncanny sense of direction. She will need it when a bombing raid destroys nearly everything she holds dear. With her home in ruins, she joins the ATS and becomes a gunner girl. Here she finds dangerous work, new friends and rivals – and painful choices in love. May's elder sister, Peggy, is trapped in a stifling marriage to a small-time crook. Amid the chaos of war, a route to freedom suddenly beckons and, along with it, new and passionate love. From the melting pot of war will come hardship and tragedy, as well as new, unexpected friendships and love affairs. PRAISE FOR GUNNER GIRLS AND FIGHTER BOYS: 'I learned so much, as the history of the Second World War was brought alive through vivid writing and wonderful storytelling. From the bomb sites of London to the countryside of Surrey, to the Middle East this is one book which will take you on a journey like no other book ever written' Petra, Amazon reviewer. 'A poignant saga of an East End of London family; their lives, loves, and losses during World War 2' Barbara Bee, Amazon reviewer. 'She makes Blitz time Bermondsey come to life' Abbie Scanlon, Amazon reviewer. 'Transported me back in time with a truly wonderful story. Lots of twists and turns and I absolutely loved the way it captures all the spirit and nostalgia from those times. Love love loved it!' Jojo's, Amazon reviewer. 'Gripping to the end. Wartime heartbreak, sadness, short lived happiness and love, you can taste the debris of war and share the odd moments of emotions' Sue Thornton, Amazon reviewer.

Ten Fighter Boys

Author : Wing Commander Athol Forbes, D.F.C.
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007362463
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Ten Fighter Boys written by Wing Commander Athol Forbes, D.F.C. and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary stories of ten fighter pilots, told in their very own words during the Second World War.

Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940-1945

Author : Patrick Bishop
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007511035
Total Pages : 1009 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940-1945 written by Patrick Bishop and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling books, ‘Fighter Boys’ and ‘Bomber Boys’, are combined in one eBook edition.

MacArthur’s Air Force

Author : Bill Yenne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472833228
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book MacArthur’s Air Force written by Bill Yenne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth and Seventh) under his command possessed 4004 combat aircraft, 433 reconnaissance aircraft and 922 transports. After being humbled by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, MacArthur and his air chief General George Kenney rebuilt the US aerial presence in the Pacific, helping Allied naval and ground forces to push back the Japanese Air Force, re-take the Philippines, and carry the war north towards the Home Islands. Following the end of World War II, MacArthur was the highest military and political authority in Japan and at the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 he was named as Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command. In the ten months of his command, his Far East Air Forces increased dramatically and saw the first aerial combat between jet fighters. Written by award-winning aviation historian Bill Yenne, this engrossing and widely acclaimed book traces the journey of American air forces in the Pacific under General MacArthur's command, from their lowly beginnings to their eventual triumph over Imperial Japan, followed by their entry into the jet age in the skies over Korea.

The Battle of Britain, 1945-1965

Author : Garry Campion
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137316268
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Britain, 1945-1965 written by Garry Campion and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-five years after the Battle of Britain, the Few's role in preventing invasion continues to enjoy a revered place in popular memory. The Air Ministry were central to the Battle's valorisation. This book explores both this, and also the now forgotten 1940 Battle of the Barges mounted by RAF bombers.

Javelin Boys

Author : Steve Bond
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1911621580
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Javelin Boys written by Steve Bond and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Royal Air Force history examines a revolutionary Cold War era aircraft with firsthand accounts from veterans who flew them all over the world. The Gloster Javelin, an all-weather interceptor aircraft, was the UK’s first line of air defense in the 1950s and 1960s, both at home and in Royal Air Force Germany. With an unorthodox aerodynamic design, the Javelin had major production issues early on—including a tendency for engines to self-destruct under certain conditions. But the revolutionary aircraft still receives much affection from its former crew. Some of their most thrilling, fascinating and colorful stories are collected here in terrific detail. Starting from the first deliveries of Javelins in 1956 until the final withdrawal from RAF squadron use in 1968, Javelin Boys describes adventures all over the world—from Cyprus to Singapore during the Indonesian Confrontation and Zambia during the Rhodesian declaration of UDI. Alongside their anecdotes is a detailed history of this unusual aircraft, accompanied by photography never seen before in print.

Dogfight

Author : Adam Claasen
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1775590046
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Dogfight written by Adam Claasen and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Australians and New Zealanders in one of the Second World War’s defining and most memorable campaigns. From July until October 1940, the German air force (the Luftwaffe) sought aerial supremacy in skies over England as a prerequisite for an invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion). The ensuing conflict of Luftwaffe and RAF aircraft in the long summer of 1940 became forever known as the Battle of Britain. Of the 574 overseas pilots in the campaign, the New Zealand contingent of 134 airmen was second in size only to the Polish contribution. The Australian involvement, though smaller, was a healthy 37. Thus a fifth of overseas pilots were Anzacs. Among these colonials were some of the Battle of Britain’s widely admired aces. Of the top ten pilots with the greatest number of victories two were New Zealanders (C. F. Gray and B. Carbury) and one an Australian (P. Hughes). Australian and New Zealand aircrew were also employed in attacking enemy Channel ports and airfields as part of Bomber and Coastal Command’s attempts to thwart invasion preparations and blunt the Luftwaffe aerial onslaught. The Anzacs also had a fellow compatriot at the highest level in the Fighter Command system: the highly regarded New Zealander Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park, who was instrumental in devising and implementing the integrated air defence of Britain around Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft, radio control and radar. In the spring of 1940, he was given the command of Group 11, which would face the brunt of the German aggression in south-east England. The success of Park’s plans and operational initiatives, and the role played by Anzac pilots and aircrew, would all contribute to the conflict’s eventual successful outcome.

Enemy Coast Ahead

Author : Guy Gibson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1784384917
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Enemy Coast Ahead written by Guy Gibson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive new edition of a classic, World War II memoir, complete with more than 100 photographs, and notes from leading historians. Guy Gibson was the leader of the famous Dambusters raid, and Enemy Coast Ahead is a vivid, honest account, widely regarded as one of the best books on the Second World War. It also provides an insider’s perspective, setting down in clear detail the challenges that the RAF faced in the war against Germany’s Luftwaffe. Tragically, Gibson died in September 1944, when his Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen in the Netherlands. He was aged just 26. This new book has been published to mark the 75th anniversary of his death and includes an introduction by James Holland, a historian and broadcaster. It includes notes by Dr Robert Owen, the Official Historian of the No. 617 Squadron Association, and many images that have never before been published. Published in association with the RAF Museum Inspired the 1955 film The Dam Busters, starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave

Boy and Going Solo

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014137845X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Boy and Going Solo written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy and Going Solo is the whole of Roald Dahl's extraordinary autobiography in one volume. Roald Dahl wasn't always a writer. Once he was just a schoolboy. Have you ever wondered what he was like growing up? In BOY you'll find out why he and his friends took revenge on the beastly Mrs Pratchett who ran the sweet shop. He remembers what it was like taste-testing chocolate for Cadbury's and he even reveals how his nose was nearly sliced off. Then in GOING SOLO you'll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling. Roald Dahl tells his story in his own words - and it's all TRUE. And now you can listen to all of Roald Dahl's novels for children on Roald Dahl Audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Also look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.

The Disastrous Fall and `Triumphant Rise of the Fleet Air Arm from 1912 to 1945

Author : Henry Hank Adlam
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473821134
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Disastrous Fall and `Triumphant Rise of the Fleet Air Arm from 1912 to 1945 written by Henry Hank Adlam and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting critique of the Fleet Air Arm's policy across two world wars, former FAA Fighter Pilot Henry Adlam charts the course of its history from 1912 to 1945, logging the various milestones, mistakes and successes that characterised the service history of the Fleet Air Arm. Offering criticism on the service hierarchies that made up the Fleet, backed up by his having served in six Carriers and flown from them in all five theatres of sea warfare during five years of the Second World War, Adlam presents a highly entertaining and potentially controversial study which is sure to appeal to a wide array of aviation enthusiasts.??Adlam charts the catalogue of errors that blighted the history of the Naval Air Service, which followed the disastrous decision in April 1918 to transfer the whole of the Air Service of the Royal Navy to form the new RAF. The main and over-riding criticism that the author finds with the Fleet Air Arm lies in the manner in which it was led. Adapting the oft-quoted "Lions led by Donkeys" description of the British Army, Adlam describes the activities of the Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War as the result of "Sea Eagles led by Penguins" practices, when experienced pilots were led into battle by senior members of the Navy who possessed little or no flying experience. This led to a whole host of disasters costing many lives amongst flight personnel. Adlam charts the errors that blighted the history of the Fleet Air Arm and shows how its recovery and the triumphant turnaround of its fortunes were all the more remarkable. Taking the reader on a journey from inception during First World War service, throughout all the many disasters and successes that followed between the Wars and on into the Second World War and beyond, this book offers engaging new insights and a degree of critical candour that set it apart from other Fleet Air Arm histories currently available on the market.

By the Skin of My Teeth

Author : Colin Downes
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783460377
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book By the Skin of My Teeth written by Colin Downes and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career pilot’s memoir of flying fighter jets through two wars and through the evolution of aviation technology. This is Colin Downes’s firsthand account of flying with the Royal Air Force in war and peace during a career in military and civil aviation covering a half century. The text is filled with his personal experiences, reminiscences and impressions and is written in four parts. Part One covers the years leading to Downes’s graduation and the winning of his RAF Wings. This is followed by action-packed stories of flying propeller-driven fighters, Spitfires and Mustangs, during and just after the Second World War. Downes then tells of his unique experiences of front-line fighter operations when he flew jets with the United States Air Force during the Korean War. The final chapter covers the remainder of his RAF Service flying until retirement. By the Skin of My Teeth offers a cockpit view of some of the most pivotal battles of the 20th century and covers decades of technological advancements in aircraft development.

The Forgotten Battle of 1066: Fulford

Author : Charles Jones
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750956747
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Battle of 1066: Fulford written by Charles Jones and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of the forgotten third battle of 1066, the battlefield which until now remained undiscovered. Three weeks and three days before the epic clash at Hastings in 1066 between Harold II and William of Normandy, a battle of the same size and scale took place just south of York at Fulford. Harald Hardrada, king of Norway, in alliance with Tostig, Harold II's brother, invaded with 300 ships, sailing up the Ouse just south of York. Edwin and Morcar, Harold's brothers-in-law and earls of Mercia and Northumbria, gave battle at Fulford. This site has been forgotten, and largely undisturbed, for almost a thousand years. Charles Jones' book investigates the complex events that forced King Harold II of England to divide his army in order to defend his new kingdom from the invasions he expected in the north and the south.

The Fighting Cocks

Author : Jimmy Bedle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473814138
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Fighting Cocks written by Jimmy Bedle and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1916, a group of early aviators gathered in the fields beneath the crags and ramparts of Stirling Castle to form what was to become one of the Royal Air Forces most distinguished fighter squadrons.Few squadrons can match the history of 43 Squadron which has included being the first to undertake ground attack operations during the First World War, shooting down the first enemy aircraft over England in the Second World War, and achieving the remarkable double of shooting down 6 enemy aircraft in one day in both World Wars. Its distinctive emblem of the Fighting Cock embodies the spirit and resilience of a fighter squadron that has been in the vanguard of RAF operations for almost a century. Perhaps the Fighting Cocks finest period occurred during the Battle of Britain when its Hurricanes destroyed 60 enemy aircraft with a further thirteen probables and twenty-five more damaged.With the advent of the jet age, 43 Squadron became the first unit to fly the Hunter, seeing operational duties in Aden, before re-equipping with the Phantom until the end of the Cold War. This new edition of the Fighting Cocks history brings the story up to date and covers its 20 years of service with the Tornado F3, including the Gulf War, NATO operations over Bosnia, and the Iraq War. * This new edition of the Fighting Cocks history brings the story up to date * Few squadrons can match the history of 43 Squadron* Fighting Cock embodies the spirit and resilience of a fighter squadron that has been in the vanguard of RAF operations for almost a century

The Flyer

Author : Martin Francis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191616966
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Flyer written by Martin Francis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin Francis provides the first scholarly study of the place of 'the flyer' in British culture during the Second World War. Examining the lives of RAF personnel, and their popular representation in literary and cinematic texts, he illuminates broader issues of gender, social class, national and racial identities, emotional life, and the creation of a national myth in twentieth-century Britain. In particular, Francis argues that the flyer's relationship to fear, aggression, loss of his comrades, bodily dismemberment, and psychological breakdown reveals broader ambiguities surrounding the dominant understandings of masculinity in the middle decades of the century. Despite his star appeal, cultural representations of the flyer encompassed both the gentle, chivalrous warrior and the uncompromising agent of destruction. Paying particular attention to the romantic universe of wartime aircrew, Francis reveals the extraordinary contrasts of their daily lives: dicing with death in the sky one moment, before sitting down to lunch with wives and children in the next. Male and female experiences during the war were not polarized and antithetical, but were complementary and interrelated, a conclusion which has implications for the history of gender in modern Britain that reach well beyond either the specialized military culture of the wartime RAF or the chronological parameters of the Second World War.