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Author Title & Description Price
SEARCH THIS SECTION FOR RAF World War Two, Squadron Histories, Squadrons, Spitfire Actions, Bomber Command, Aviation, RAF in Burma, RAF Far East, RAF North africa, RAF in Italy, RAF in France, RAF Airfields, RAF Bases, RAF Awards, and RAF Roll of Honour. RAF Books Aviation Books
Brooks Robin SUSSEX AIRFIELDS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR Pub Countryside 1993. 1st Wd. Bk v.g. Soft illustrated covers. pp 188. Page plates. Good Appendices. App. 'A' Squadrons based there. App. 'C' Luftwaffe Units involved. £8
Bowyer Michael ACTION STATIONS 1 : Wartime Military Airfields of East Anglia 1939 - 1945 Pub Stephens 1979. 2nd Ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. pp 230. Plates. East Anglia was the centre for the aerial defence and later offence during WW 2. Contains plenty of hard historical fact for those interested in the history. £12
Wood Derek TARGET ENGLAND : The illustrated history of the Battle of Britain Pub Jane's 1980. 1st ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. pp 192. Plates. Page 5 has extra details of planes shown on plate added in ink. Also extra details on paper with the names of personnel in one of the plates. £16
Raymond Robert A YANK IN BOMBER COMMAND Pub Charles 1977. 1st Ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. pp156. Plates. An American volunteer in Bomber Command. Gives a preface by Frankland of the Imperial War Museum £ £8
Hillings John B STRIKE HARD : A Bomber Airfield At War Pub Budding 1997. 2nd Ed. Bk v.g. Dw v.g. pp 139. Page plates. R.A.F. DOWNHAM MARKET AND ITS SQUADRONS 1942 - 46. fOREWORD BY GROUUP CAPTAIN T.G. ' HAMISH ' MAHADDIE. This is not a definative history of the Airfield but it contains much information. £9
Robertson Alan LION RAMPANT AND WINGED Pub Robertson 1986. 1st ed. Bk v.g. Dw v.g. pp 269. Plates. The history of Scottish Aviation Ltd. Predecessor of British aerospace Civil Aircraft Division Prestwick. A difficult book to obtain and a difinative history. Leatherette boards. £18
Cooper Alan AIR BATTLE OF THE RUHR Pub Airlife 1992. 1st Ed. Bk v.g. Dw v.g.pp 218 Plates. An account of theis major offensive by Bomber Command against industry of the Ruhr. Gives the names of the personnel in each missing aircraft from 5th mar. to July 1943. £10
Deighton Len FIGHTER : The True Story of the Battle of Britain Pub Cape 1977. 2nd Ed. Bk v.g. Dw v.g. pp 304. Plates. A very detailed account. A good part of the book is devoted to tactics. It gives the resources of 11 Group Fighter Command etc £9
Munson Kenneth AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR 11 Pub Allan 1980. 3rd ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. pp 270. Plates. A one volume guide to the Warplanes of WW 2. Well illustrated with the history and technical details. £10
Robinson Bill A PATHFINDER'S STORY : The Life and Death of Flight Lieutenant Jack Mossey DFC,DFM Pub Sword 2007. 1st Ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. pp 188. Plates. Mossey was a Wireless Operator in 49 Squadron. He progressed to 76 Squad. and ended as Master Bomber with Pathfinder Group 35 Squadron. £10
Harvey J.Douglas BOY'S BOMBS AND BRUSSELS SPROUTS A Knees - Up, Wheels - Up Chronicle of WW 2 Pub McCelland 1981. 1st Ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. but with slight letter fade on spine. pp 210. Nno plates. the story of Douglas Harvey, Royal Canadian Air Force with No 6 Bomber Command £8
Smith J. Richard MESSERSCHMITT : An Aircraft Album Pub Allan 1971. 1st ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. pp 144. Plates. The story of this aircraft from glider of 1921 to MBB GmbH. Also describes the uses when ussed in the Luftwaffe. Gives Type and Production Lists. £10
Price Alfred Battle of Britain THE HARDEST DAY 18TH AUGUST 1940 Pub Armour 1988. 2nd Ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. pp 222. Plates. Gives a number of appendices including British Combat Losses for this date. Gives fate and damage or where shot down etc. £9
Hill Mary M. THE MAKING OF A PATHFINDER The War Letters from a Navigator F/O Douglas Knight Williams, DFC Pub Merlin 1992. Booklet v.g. Soft covers. the letters of an American who joined the RAF. Has interesting detail his training in Wigtown, Galloway and of what it was like in the town then. £5
Turner P. St. John HEINKEL : An Aircraft Album Pub Allan 1970. 1st Ed. bk v.g. DW v.g. pp 125. Plates. Contains Production List at the rear. Excellent detail as well as plates. £10
Bowyer Michael AIRCRAFT FOR THE FEW Pub Stephens 1991. 1st Ed. Bk v.g. Dw v.g. pp 256. Page plates. the R.A.F's Fighter and Bombers in 1940. Covers all the aircraft used at this time. Incredibly detailed. Which Squadron, where, listed aircraft and where crashed etc. £15
Smith Graham DORSET AIRFIELDS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR Pub Countryside 1999. 1st ed. Bk v.g. Soft illustrated covers pp 224. Page Plates. Good information on all the Airfields. £7
Wood Derek TARGET ENGLAND : An Illustrated History of the Battle of Britain Pub Janes's 1980. 1st Ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. pp 179. Plates. There is also good detail in the text. The previous owner has left a piece of paper with details of one of the photo's. £10
Barker Ralph THE SHIP BUSTERS : The Story of the R.A.F. Torpedo - Bombers Pub. Chatto 1957. 1st Ed. Bk v.g. Dw v.g. Slight creases and rubs.pp 267. Plates. From the early ' rover ' attackes by single Beauforts of the Dutch and Norweqian Coasts to the massed attacks of later years. attrative DW. £10
Delve andd Jacobs THE SIX - YEAR OFFENSIVE : BOMBER COMMAND IN WORLD WAR 11 Pub Armour 1992. 1st Ed. Bk v.g. DW v.g. pp 188. Plates. Bomber Command at War. Very good appendices ; Order of Battles' Squadron, Aircraft, Location, and Operational Training Units. £9
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Continued from the above entry was issued at intervals. Details: Squadron, Type of aircraft, names of crew, what took place, where buried when appropriate, Awards and even names of prisones of War and Escape lists. Scarce complete. RECOMMENDED.
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