Aircraft Crash Sites Brecon Beacons

Author : David Anthony Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781364334383
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aircraft Crash Sites Brecon Beacons written by David Anthony Williams and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first publication, in a soon to be, series of three books, dedicated to the locations within the Brecon Beacons of aircraft crash sites. The book details the flight history of the aircraft and crew, along with detailed directions and coordinates of each site, including on site photographs.

Author : Barry Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905795796
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aircraft Crash Sites in the Brecon Beacons written by Barry Hill and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905795680
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aircraft Crash Sites in the Brecon Beacons written by Barry Hill and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Doylerush
Publisher : Crecy Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781857802818
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocks in the Clouds written by Edward Doylerush and published by Crecy Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, many pilots of both Allied and Axis aircraft met their fate in the peaks of the high mountains across Wales. This book covers the various such aircraft crash sites found in the area south of the latitude of Brecon, which from east to west includes the Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons, to south of Llandoverty and the Presceli Hills in the west. Appendices include a full list of high-ground military losses and memorials to those who perished, as well as a bibliography.

Author : Nick Wotherspoon
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844159108
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aircraft Wrecks written by Nick Wotherspoon and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives readers a direct link to crash sites that can be visited, with accurate grid references, site description and current photographs. It covers some 450 selected sites with emphasis given to those on open access land. The areas covered are: Southern England: Dartmoor and Exmoor - 20 entries * Wales - 120 entries * Isle of Man - 20 entries Peak District - 75 entries * Yorkshire Moors: Eastern - 20 entries * Lake District - 25 entries Pennines: East Lancashire & West Yorkshire * Scotland: Central and Southern - 30 entriesScotland: Highlands & Islands * Ireland - 20 entries Each area includes a preamble describing the local geography and historical notes. Individual site entries include exact location, details of the aircraft and crew and the circumstances of the loss.

Author : Ron Collier
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850524571
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 1 written by Ron Collier and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1995-03-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil and military aircraft types are represented, from biplanes to modern jet fighters. This is an invaluable guide for walkers and ramblers, as well as for all those interested in flying and the history of aviation.

Author : Dilip Sarkar
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1399089501
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spitfire Down written by Dilip Sarkar and published by Air World. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 fourteenth, Flying Officer Buck Casson, was brought down by a German ace over France and captured. There is, for example, the virtually unknown story of ‘The Baby of the RAF’, Sergeant Geoffrey Painting. Posted to fly Spitfires with 118 Squadron at RAF Ibsley in Hampshire, Painting was hit by flak during an attack on enemy shipping off Cherbourg on 30 September 1941. Still listed as missing, at just 17, he is believed to have been the youngest RAF pilot killed during the Second World War. The author has reconstructed Painting’s short life with help from his family, and forensically deconstructed that last flight with the help of the now late Wing Commander Peter Howard-Williams DFC, who was flying with the teenage pilot that day. The author also explores the heart-rending story of an American trainee fighter pilot, Pilot Officer ‘Jim Bob’ Lee, whose Spitfire collided with a Wellington bomber over Gloucestershire – resulting in the loss of all airmen involved. Two Canadian pilots perished on Pen-y-Fan, the highest peak in South Wales. The multi-national effort that defeated Hitler is further emphasised, in fact, through the stories of both Wing Commander Piotr Laguna and Flying Officer Franek Surma. But perhaps most tragic of all is how lightning struck Joan Welch twice: her first fiancée, Flight Lieutenant Lester Sanders DFC, was killed test-flying Spitfires in 1942, and her second, Pilot Officer Ian Smith, was killed flying in Palestine in 1945. Using correspondence, diaries and other personal papers of the pilots concerned, the author has reconstructed their all-too brief lives and provided a lasting and profusely illustrated record of these sacrifices.

Author : Terence Hill
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473814189
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Descent written by Terence Hill and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1998-08-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final Descent presents detailed information on the loss of allied aircraft in the forbidding hills of Wales and the often tragic consequences.

Author : Nicholas Veronico
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 9780963633200
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wreckchasing written by Nicholas Veronico and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1993-04-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David W. Earl
Publisher : Airlife Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell on High Ground written by David W. Earl and published by Airlife Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of aircraft crashes on hills and mountains of the UK and Ireland covers the period 1928 to 1992, the majority relating to World War II. Drawing upon Air Force records, civil accident reports and news reports, the author has included the accounts of survivors, eye-witnesses and rescuers.