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Fighter boys : the Battle of Britain, 1940 / by Bishop, Patrick(Patrick Joseph)(CARDINAL)727444;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Fighter Command; Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940.; Fighter pilots;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The few [sound recording] : the American "knights of the air" who risked everything to fight in the Battle of Britain by Kershaw, Alex.(CARDINAL)645293; Brick, Scott.(CARDINAL)344793; Brilliance Audio (Firm)(CARDINAL)539950;
Read by Scott Brick.The dramatic story of American pilots who defied their own country's neutrality in 1940 and joined Britain's Royal Air Force to combat Hitler.Compact disc.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Fighter Command; Americans; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The few : the American "Knights of the air" who risked everything to fight in the battle of Britain / by Kershaw, Alex.(CARDINAL)645293;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index.The never-before-told story of the American pilots--idealists, adventurers, romantics--who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest hour. Eight young Americans joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940--over a year before America entered the war. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became "knights of the air" and with minimal training but plenty of guts, they dueled the skilled and fearsome pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. Winston Churchill once said of all those who fought in the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." These daring Americans were the few among the "few."--From publisher description.
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Fighter Command; Americans; World War, 1939-1945;
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The few [sound recording] : the American "knights of the air" who risked everything to fight in the Battle of Britain / by Kershaw, Alex.; Brick, Scott.nrt;
Read by Scott Brick.Tells the story of the few Americans who decided that they could not remain neutral during World War Two and joined Britain's Royal Air Force to defend the country from Hitler.
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Fighter Command; Americans; Audiobooks.; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Yanks in the RAF : the story of maverick pilots and American volunteers who joined Britain's fight in WWII / by Johnson, David,1950-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-275) and index."This is the story of American volunteer pilots who risked their lives in defense of Britain during the earliest days of World War II--more than a year before Pearl Harbor, when the United States first became embroiled in the global conflict. Based on interviews, diaries, personal documents, and research in British, American, and German archives, the author has created a colorful portrait of this small group who were our nation's first combatants in World War II. As the author's research shows, their motives were various: some were idealistic; others were simply restless and looking for adventure. And though the British Air Force needed pilots, cultural conflicts between the raw American recruits and their reserved British commanders soon became evident. Prejudices on both sides and lack of communication had to be overcome. Eventually, the American pilots were assembled into three squadrons known as the Eagle squadrons. They saw action and suffered casualties in both England and France, notably in the attack on Dieppe. By September 1942, after America had entered the war, these now experienced pilots were transferred to the US Air Force, bringing their expertise and their British Spitfires with them. As much social as military history, Yanks in the RAF sheds new light on a little-known chapter of World War II and the earliest days of the sometimes fractious British-American alliance"--
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Eagle Squadrons; World War, 1939-1945; Fighter pilots; Americans; Fighter pilots;
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Camel Combat Ace : The Great War Flying Career of Edwin Swale CBE OBE DFC / by Marsden, Barry M.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 94) and index."Follows the First World War career of Captain (later wing commander) Edwin Swale, CBE DFC and bar, who served with 210 Squadron RAF, piloting Sopwith Camel scouts between March and October 1918. During this timeframe, he destroyed seventeen enemy aircraft (the majority being the formidable Fokker DV11) and undertook a series of perilous operations, including countless strafing mission and risky bomber escorts over enemy territories. After the cessation of hostilities, he continued his flying career by piloting gliders over his native Derbyshire. He rejoined the RAF during the Second World War and ended the conflict as an intelligence officer in charge of Ultra operations with the 2nd TAF." -- $c Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Swale, Edwin.; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 210; Camel (Fighter plane); Fighter pilots; Fighter planes; World War, 1914-1918;
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Bomber command / by Hastings, Max,author.(CARDINAL)141562;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-353) and index.Prologue -- Norfolk and Heligoland bight, 18 December 1939 -- In the beginning, Trenchard: British bomber policy, 1917-40 -- Squadron, Norfolk, 1940-41 -- Squadron, Yorkshire, 1940-41 -- Crisis of confidence, 1941-42 -- The coming of area bombing, 1942 -- Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1942 -- Harris conducts an overture -- Operations -- Protest and policy, 1942-43 -- Dissent -- Casablanca-the airmen victorious -- The tools of darkness -- Squadron, Yorkshire, 1943 -- The Ruhr -- Hamburg -- Courage -- The other side of the hill: Germany 1940-44 -- The destruction -- The defenses -- Bomber Command Headquarters, Buckinghamshire -- Conflict and compromise, 1943-44 -- The battle of Berlin -- The American breakthrough -- Pathfinders: 97 Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1944 -- "A quiet trip all round": Darmstadt, 11/12 September 1944 -- Saturation -- The balance sheet -- Appendix A: Bomber command sorties dispatched and aircraft missing and written off, 1939-45 -- Appendix B: Specifications and performance of the principal aircraft of Bomber Command and Luftwaffe night-fighters, 1939-45 -- Appendix C: -- The target indicator board at Bomber Command HQ, High Wycombe, at the beginning of February 1945 -- Appendix D: Comparison of British and German production of selected armaments, 1940-44 -- Appendix E: Schedule of German cities subjected to area attack by bomber command, 1942-45 -- Appendix F: Comparison of Allied and German aircraft production, 1939-45.
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The greatest air aces stories ever told : the men of the American, British, and Commonwealth Air Forces who fought for the sky in two World Wars / by Smith, Robert B.,(Robert Barr),1933-2017,author.; Yadon, Laurence J.,1948-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290) and index.World War I -- The coming of Armageddon -- Only a broth of a lad. Albert Ball (RFC) -- Deadly and ruthless. Mick Mannock (RFC) -- The pride of Canada. Billy Barker (RFC Canadian) -- When the Royal Navy ruled the air. Raymond Collishaw (RN) -- Escadrille americaine -- Hometown hero. Eddie Rickenbacker (US) -- No engine, no wings, no bloody hope -- Burning balloons ahead. Frank Luke (US) -- A Canadian original. Billy Bishop (RFC Canadian) -- The Red Baron: Freiherr Manfred von Richthofen (Germany) -- A brilliant pilot. James McCudden (RFC) -- Fierce little beast - the Sopwith Camel -- Small package, deadly contents. Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor (RFC) -- Too young to vote. George Edwin Thomson (RFC) -- One tough Irishman. George McElroy (RFC) -- World War II -- A man of dash and gallantry. Robert Stanford Tuck (RAF) -- The man with the tin legs. Douglas Bader (RAF) -- An enigma. Pappy Boyington (US) -- All-American boy. Joe Foss (US) -- Untiring patience and energy. Johnnie Johnson (RAF) -- One-armed Mac. James MacLachlan (RAF) -- The finest natural pilot I ever met. Richard Bong (US) -- The greatest flying ace. Pat Pattle (RAF) -- The cream of the crop. David McCampbell (US) -- Young Finucane of the shamrock. Paddy Finucane (RAF) -- Adlertag -- Just one more. Gabby Gabreski (US) -- Ace of aces. Adolf Galland (Germany) -- Faith, hope, and charity: the battle for Malta -- The boys from Shangri-La: in which Jimmie Doolittle visits Tokyo uninvited -- The great Marianas Turkey Shoot -- The Nelson touch: swordfish at Taranto -- Graceful lady: when Enola Gay brought the fires of hell to Japan -- Afterword.In thirty-five chapters, The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told covers many of the leading American and British Commonwealth fighter aces of WW I and II, together with a few bomber crews whose gallantry made a substantial contribution to the end of WW II. Other nations had their aces, but this book concentrates on American and Commonwealth pilots. These aviators were chosen not only because of their "scores" and their great courage, but also for other qualities which set them apart, like the WWII Royal Air Force Wing Commander who shot down more than 20 Germans while flying with two artificial legs.
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Naval Air Service; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; United States. Army Air Forces; Fighter pilots; World War, 1914-1918; Flight crews; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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No parachute : a classic account of war in the air in WWI in letters written in 1917 by Lieutenant A.S.G. Lee, Sherwood Forresters, attached Royal Flying Corps / by Lee, Arthur S. Gould(Arthur Stanley Gould),1894-1975,author.(CARDINAL)713761;
The Pilots' Pool -- The Ypres Front -- The Battle of Messines -- The Vimy Front -- Air Defence of London -- The Third Battle of Ypres -- The Arras Front -- The Battle of Cambrai -- Cambrai Aftermath.From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces - among them Ball, Bishop, McCuddon, Collishaw and Mannock - whose legendary feats have echoed down half a century. But behind the elite there were, in the Royal Flying Corps, many hundreds of other airmen who flew their hazardous daily sorties in outdated planes without ever achieving fame. Here is the story of one of these unknown flyers - a story based on letters written on the day, hot on the event, which tells of a young pilot's progress from fledgling to seasoned fighter. His descriptions of air fighting, sometimes against the Richtofen Circus, of breathless dog-fights between Sopwith Pup and Albatros, are among the most vivid and immediate to come out of World War I. Gould Lee brilliantly conveys the immediacy of air war, the thrills and the terror, in this honest and timeless acount. Rising to the rank of air vice-marshal, Gould Lee never forgot the RFC's needless sacrifices - and in a trio of trenchant appendices he examines, with the mature judgement of a senior officer of the RAF and a graduate of the Staff and Imperial Defence Colleges, the failure of the Army High Command to provide both efficient aeroplanes until mid-1917 and parachutes throughout the war, and General Trenchard's persistence in a costly and largely ineffective conception of the air offensive.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Lee, Arthur S. Gould (Arthur Stanley Gould), 1894-1975.; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Fighter pilots; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Battle of Britain : five months that changed history, May-October 1940 / by Holland, James,1970-(CARDINAL)349817;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-651) and index.Miracles. First flight ; The eve of battle ; The go-for-broke gamble ; Hook, line and sinker ; The first clash in the air ; Breakthrough ; Inside the Third Reich ; A battle against time ; The battle is lost ; Emergency measure ; Learning the lessons ; What to do for the best ; New appointments ; Decisions ; Fighter command enters the fray ; Crisis ; Black Monday ; Dunkirk : the beginning ; Dunkirk : in the balance ; Dunkirk : the middle ; Dunkirk : the end -- Respite. What next? ; The end in France ; Hitler's dilemma ; All alone ; Getting ready ; Trouble at sea : part 1 ; Bringing it all together ; Trouble at sea : part 2 ; Crooked leg -- Kanalkampf. First combat ; Peace offerings ; The besieged ; Hotting up ; Bombs on Germany, Bomben auf England -- Battle over Britain. The wall of England ; Adlertag ; The biggest air battle ; The hardest day ; Bombs on Berlin ; Tactics and technicalities ; Breaking point ; Black Saturday ; Summer madness ; The crux ; Wolfpack ; Exhaustion ; Last flight."If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war," Churchill said in the summer of 194o. He was right. The Battle of Britain was a crucial turning point in the history of the Second World War, and now, acclaimed British historian James Holland has written the definitive account of this battle based on extensive new research from around the world, including thousands of new interviews with people on both sides of the fighting. --From clashes between coastal convoys and Schnellboote in the Channel to astonishing last stands in Flanders, and from the slaughter by the U-boats in the icy Atlantic to the dramatic aerial battles over England, James Holland's The Battle of Britain paints a complete picture of that extraordinary summer -- a time in which the fate of the world truly hung by a thread. --Book Jacket.Had Britain's defenses collapsed, Hitler would have dominated all of Europe and been able to turn his full attention east to the Soviet Union. The German invasion of France and the Low Countries in May 1940 was unlike any the world had ever seen. It hit with a force and aggression that no one could counterùand in just a few short weeks. All in their way crumbled under the force of the Nazi hammer blow. With France facing defeat and with British forces pressed back to the Channel, there were few who believed Britain could possibly survive. Soon, it seemed, Hitler would have all of Europe at his feet. Yet Hitler's forces were not quite the Goliath they at first appeared to be and Germany's leadership lacked the single-minded purpose, vision, and direction that had led to such success on land. Nor was Britain any David. Thanks to a sophisticated defensive system and the combined efforts of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy as well as the mounting sense of collective defiance led by a new prime minister, Britain was not ready to give in to the Nazi onslaught. --
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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