Fighter Pilots Of The Raf 1939 1945

Author : Chaz Bowyer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473814103
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighter Pilots of the RAF, 1939–1945 written by Chaz Bowyer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2000-09-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has selected some twenty RAF fighter pilots of the Second World War, not only to give overdue recognition to their prowess and courage, but also to exemplify the wide diversity of the individual characters of those men whose war was fought from the cockpit of an RAF fighter. A few were familiar names but most received little or no public acclaim, being part of the silent majority which provided the real spine of the RAF's fighter effort throughout the conflict.

Author : Tony Holmes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473835666
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Eagles: US Fighter Pilots in the RAF 1939-1945 written by Tony Holmes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Eagles provides a photographic snapshot of the lives of the American fighter pilots who volunteered their services during World War II, as well as the Spitfires and Hurricanes they flew. Keen to help Britain stem the spread of Fascism, or perhaps seeking adventure in a foreign land, a number of American citizens defied the wishes of their government by crossing the border into Canada and subsequently sailing to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. Some were prewar civilian pilots, others were rich playboys and a few were already serving in the RAF when war was declared. Men such as Don Blakeslee, Billy Fiske, 'Gus' Daymond and Jim Dunn, as well as many other notable pilots are featured in this volume, in photographs that have been carefully sourced from official and private archives across the globe. Each image has a detailed caption, chronicling the wartime exploits of the elite 'band of brothers' known as the American Eagles.

Author : Edward H. Sims
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fighter Pilots written by Edward H. Sims and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Falconer
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752470493
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot written by Jonathan Falconer and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern England. Late summer 1940. The nation is fighting for its very survival and the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive is unrelenting. All that lies between invasion and salvation for Britain is the 'thin blue line' of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots. This newly illustrated anniversary edition of Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot reveals what it was like to fly a fighter plane in the Battle of Britain. Who were the Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of 1940? How did they spend a typical day? And when pitched together in combat at 30,000 feet, which was the better machine - Spitfire or Me109? Read Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot and then ask yourself: would I have been up to the job?

Author : John Foreman
Publisher : Red Kite / Air Research
ISBN 13 : 9780953806188
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighter Command Air Combat Claims 1939-45 written by John Foreman and published by Red Kite / Air Research. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential reference series listing every combat claim submitted by RAF fighter pilots during World War Two. Part One covers the Fall of France and Battle of Britain, Part Two covers the period after the Battle of Britain when RAF Fighter Command went on the offensive over Occupied Europe.

Author : Chaz Bowyer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473811716
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air War Over Europe, 1939–1945 written by Chaz Bowyer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2003-03-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaz Bowyer, arguably the most authoritative air historian of his generation, tackles the broad sweep of air operations in the European theatre in this book. Initially, the Luftwaffe attempted to dominate the skies, and very nearly succeeded. The valiant defence of the UK by the RAF in the Battle of Britain ranks among the greatest feats of arms in our country's history. The development of aircraft types and the descriptions of the actions that they and their pilots and crew fought make for great reading.

Author : E. C. R. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fighter Aces of the R.A.F., 1939-1945 written by E. C. R. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman L. R. Franks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780718306526
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scramble to Victory written by Norman L. R. Franks and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografisk beretning om fem RAF-jagerpiloter, der deltog i 2. verdenskrig både mod tyske og japanske modstandere

Author : Martin Francis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191616966
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( 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.

Author : Chaz Bowyer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850527864
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighter Pilots of the RAF 1939-1945 written by Chaz Bowyer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2000-09-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has selected some twenty RAF fighter pilots of the Second World War, not only to give overdue recognition to their prowess and courage, but also to exemplify the wide diversity of the individual characters of those men whose war was fought from the cockpit of an RAF fighter. A few were familiar names but most received little or no public acclaim, being part of the silent majority which provided the real spine of the RAF's fighter effort throughout the conflict.