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Author : Robin J. Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853060991
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Kent Airfields Remembered written by Robin J. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Hylton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844150844
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Kent and Sussex 1940 written by Stuart Hylton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1940, Britain's front line against the German armies was the coast of Kent and Sussex. Across the Channel, Hitler's forces gathered, preparing for invasion, as the Home Forces struggled desperately to recover from the disaster and miracle of Dunkirk. Occupation of these islands was nearer than for almost nine hundred years. Kent and Sussex 1940, tells the story of the communities that found themselves in the front line, placing their experience within the context of huge historic events.
Author : Robin J. Brooks
Publisher : British Airfields of World War
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kent Airfields in the Second World War written by Robin J. Brooks and published by British Airfields of World War. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full account of the part played by Kent's airfields during the Second World War. The history of each airfield is described with the aircraft based at them and the main operations flown. The effects of the war on the daily lives of civilians, and the constant dangers from raids and night bombing are also detailed. Fully illustrated.
Author : Peter Jacobs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844159000
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Airfields of the D-Day Invasion Air Force written by Peter Jacobs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area - in this case Kent, Surrey, East Sussex, Essex and Greater London. The South east of England emerged from six years of war with a rich diversity of RAF bomber and fighter airfields used by the 2nd Tactical Air Force, both before and after the D-Day landings. Much of this proud legacy is now threatening to disappear. However, the tourist can combine visits to an abundance of disused and active airfields, country houses and museums with countless attractions, imaginative locations and broadland and coastal hideaways that have no equal. The airfields and other places of interest include Northolt, Manston, Sculthorp, Dunsfold, Swanton Morley, Hunsdon, Gravesend, Detling, Biggin Hill, Kenley, Redhill, Gatwick, Heston, Hornchurch, Chailey, Coolham, Horne, West Malling and Newchurch. This book looks at the history and personalities associated with each base, what remains today and explores the favourite local wartime haunts where aircrew and ground crew would have sought well-deserved entertainment and relaxation. Other museums and places that are relevant will also be described and general directions on how to get them included.
Author : David Burridge
Publisher : Potomac Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book 20th Century Defences in Britain, Kent written by David Burridge and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the 20th-century defence of Britain as part of a series covering military archaeology in the United Kingdom. The project was a response to growing concern about Britain's recent defence heritage and about the rate at which many historically significant structures were succumbing to demolition or neglect.
Author : Simon St John Beer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844158764
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book A Salute to One Of the Few written by Simon St John Beer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a quiet churchyard in Amersham is the grave of an airman who lost his life fighting in the skies over southern England in October 1940. The author happened to come across this grave in 1998 and after some initial enquiries discovered that nobody in the town was aware that 'One of the Few' Battle of Britain pilots lay at rest in their parish. He determined to discover more about the short life of this hero and undertook several years of research to piece together this biography. Peter joined the RAF in November 1937 on a four-year short service commission at the age of twenty. In July 1938 he was posted to No. 87 Squadron being equipped with the then new Hawker Hurricane fighter. After war had been declared the Squadron was posted to Boos in France in support of the British Expeditionary Force, becoming operational on 10 September 1939. In March 1940 he was transferred to 501 Squadron in Tangmere and then again in April to 74 Squadron as an operational pilot at Hornchurch, equipped with Spitfires. It was from here that he fought his part in the Battle of Britain. For those who may have forgotten 'The Few', this stirring and yet sad story tells of the all-too-short life of one of the 544 young men who gave everything to defend Great Britain from Nazi aggression.
Author : Anthony J. Moor
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144562494X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Detling Airfield written by Anthony J. Moor and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the Kentish airfield that was a station of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in World War I and the Royal Air Force (RAF) in World War II.
Author : Geoff Mills
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1069 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book RAF and USAAF Airfields in the UK During the Second World War written by Geoff Mills and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the United Kingdom was described as one vast aircraft carrier anchored off the coast of Europe. During a seven year period 500 airfields were constructed to serve the needs first of the RAF and later the USAAF as they carried the war to German-occupied Europe. The airfields that were constructed took many different forms from training airfields and Advanced Landing Grounds to grass fighter airstrips and vast complexes used to accommodate heavy bombers. This book charts the history of each Second World War airfield in and around the UK providing a unique insight in to the construction, operational life and post-war history of each airfield. Alongside detailing the history of each airfield, this work comprehensively records the details of each unit that operated from airfields around the UK. The information provided in this meticulously researched book is supported by a wealth of 690 photographs providing an illustration into the life of each wartime station.
Author : Phil Tomaselli
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848847432
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Air Force Lives written by Phil Tomaselli and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to serve as an airman in the Second World War, as a pilot, a gunner, a wireless operator, or as a pilot or observer over the trenches of the Western Front during the First World War, or in the Fleet Air Arm or as a fitter or in the WomenAEs Royal Air Force, or as a member of the ground crew who are so often overlooked in the history of Britain's air arm? And how can you find out about an individual, an ancestor whose service career is a gap in your family's history? Phil Tomaselli shows you how this can be done.
Author : Winston G. Ramsey
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Blitz Then and Now written by Winston G. Ramsey and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 1990 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period in question began quietly with the Luftwaffe busy elsewhere, yet the increasing attacks on Germany by the Royal Air Foce provoked a response in the form of the so-called Baedeker offensive of 1942. And it is against this background of the hammer blows dealt out to German towns and cities that the Blitz on Britain during 1942 - 1944 period must be viewed.
Author : Mick Hymans
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326210637
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Eastbourne Remembered written by Mick Hymans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having lived in Eastbourne all my life, over 60 years now, I have noticed many changes - some good, some not so good. Shops and businesses that were thriving concerns used and loved by most - Louis G. Ford and Woolworths to name but two - are now just distant memories. Being able to jump on to the rear platform a moving bus as it passed by or to have a choice of five or six town centre cinemas to visit are pleasures no longer available. The smell, sight and sound of snorting, hissing steam engines at the station are now long gone - as is the opportunity to catch one of these on a Saturday morning to take you directly to Birmingham or the North of England. Thankfully, photographers over the last 100 years or more had the presence of mind to capture these images, so that these scenes need not be completely forgotten.
Author : Nina Ann Smith
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525567381
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book It's Odd, The Things One Remembers written by Nina Ann Smith and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's Odd, The Thing's One Remembers' traces the life of Nina Ann Bentley (later Nina Ann Smith) from an idyllic childhood in 1920s England, through her service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, and on into the far more challenging decades of the second-half of the twentieth century in Canada, America, and Mexico. While her life parallels that of many thousands of women who moved across the Atlantic in search of a better life after the Second World War, there are a few extra angles – ‘the darts which fate aimed at me and adventures on which I was led’ – including the birth of two disabled children, and the struggles to deal with new countries and ways of life. There is the excitement, and frustration, of living in Washington during the Kennedy years; and the sustained tension of being on the front lines of the cold war with a husband serving on the Defence Research Staff. There is the unexpected joy of a third stage of life in the mountains and coastal villages of Mexico; followed by the challenges of caring for a paralyzed husband and an ageing disabled daughter. And woven throughout, is the story of a young love that shadows her the rest of her life.
Author : Roy Humphreys
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780750927901
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Kent Aviation written by Roy Humphreys and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using over 300 photographs, Roy Humphreys tells the story of civil and military aviation in Kent. From the excitement and glamour of early pioneers on the Isle of Sheppey, to the RFC and RNAS (the fledgling RAF) in World War I, from the "golden age" of flying in the 1920s and 1930s (when flying for pleasure became a reality) to the airfields of World War II, and to date - all these facets of aviation history are captured. Carefully selected pictures and detailed informative captions should interest anyone who knows and loves the county of Kent, as well as aviation enthusiasts.
Author : Michael N. Ingrisano
Publisher : Merriam Press
ISBN 13 : 1576383393
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Valor without arms written by Michael N. Ingrisano and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael N. Ingrisano, Jr.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435758897
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Valor Without Arms written by Michael N. Ingrisano, Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War 2 History Series. A History of the 316th Troop Carrier Group, 1942-1945. Complete history utilizing the author's personal recollections and those of his comrades along with extensive archival research. Encompasses Headquarters, 36th, 37th, 44th and 45th Squadrons, the Group was part of the 52nd Troop Carrier Wing, Ninth Air Force, participating in the airborne/glider operations in Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Holland and Germany. 91 photos, 30 maps, 13 appendices, 428 footnotes, bibliography, index.
Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783463023
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The Few: Fight for the Skies written by Philip Kaplan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new pictorial history from Philip Kaplan, the perspectives of both RAF and Luftwaffe airmen are considered within the wider context of one of the most iconic and pivotal conflicts of modern history. ??The Blitz, primarily the bombing of London and the major cities of Britain by the German Air Force, lasted for fifty-seven nights from September 1940 into May 1941. Life under the bombing; the perspectives of German and British airmen; the experience of sheltering in the London Underground; first-hand accounts of the horror by survivors left behind; all these voices are consolidated to great effect, providing a suitable commentary to the rare archive photography on display.??Accounts and photographs of some of the most notable participants caught up in the proceedings include; Al Deere, Geoffrey Page, Brian Kingcome, Peter Townsend, Bob Doe and Ginger Lacey.
Author : Chris Ashworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Action Stations: Military airfields of the Central South and South-East written by Chris Ashworth and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, this up-dated version includes additional text and photographs, bringing the story up to date. This is the last of the area volumes in the Action Stations series.
