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Air Combat Legends Vol II by Nicolas Trudgian. (FLY)


Air Combat Legends Vol II by Nicolas Trudgian. (FLY)
One edition.
£2.00

Messerschmitt 109 by D A Lande.

Messerschmitt 109 by D A Lande.
One edition.
£13.99

Air Combat Paintings Volume VI by Robert Taylor.

Air Combat Paintings Volume VI by Robert Taylor.
3 editions.
2 of the 3 editions feature up to 2 additional signatures.
£45.00 - £245.00


Air Combat Paintings Volume VI by Robert Taylor.

Air Combat Paintings Volume VI by Robert Taylor.
3 editions.
2 of the 3 editions feature up to 2 additional signatures.
£45.00 - £245.00

Casualties of the German Air Service 1914-1920 by Norman Franks, Frank Bailey and Rick Duiven.

Casualties of the German Air Service 1914-1920 by Norman Franks, Frank Bailey and Rick Duiven.
One edition.
£29.95

For Valour, the Air VCs by Chaz Bowyer.

For Valour, the Air VCs by Chaz Bowyer.
One edition.
£29.95


German Air Force in the Great War Major Georg Paul Neumann.

German Air Force in the Great War Major Georg Paul Neumann.
One edition.
£16.00

War in a Stringbag by Charles Lamb.

War in a Stringbag by Charles Lamb.
One edition.
£7.99

Fighter Pilot by Paul Richey.

Fighter Pilot by Paul Richey.
One edition.
£18.99


Torpedo Leader by Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs.

Torpedo Leader by Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs.
One edition.
£16.95

One Night in June by Kevin Shannon and Stephen Wright.

One Night in June by Kevin Shannon and Stephen Wright.
One edition.
£16.95

History of No. 30 Squadron - Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919 by Maj J Everidge.

History of No. 30 Squadron - Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919 by Maj J Everidge.
One edition.
£16.00


The Annals of 100 Squadron.

The Annals of 100 Squadron.
One edition.
£22.00

Tail Gunner by R C Rivaz DFC.

Tail Gunner by R C Rivaz DFC.
One edition.
£7.99

Aces and Pilots of the US 8th/9th Air Forces by Jerry Scutts.

Aces and Pilots of the US 8th/9th Air Forces by Jerry Scutts.
One edition.
£19.99


Naval Aviation in the First World War by R D Layman.

Naval Aviation in the First World War by R D Layman.
One edition.
£22.50

Lockheed P-38 Lightning by Michael OLeary.

Lockheed P-38 Lightning by Michael OLeary.
One edition.
£12.99

F-51 Mustang Units Over Korea by Warren Thompson.

F-51 Mustang Units Over Korea by Warren Thompson.
One edition.
£12.99


F-86 Sabre Fighter - Bomber Units Over Korea by Warren Thompson.

F-86 Sabre Fighter - Bomber Units Over Korea by Warren Thompson.
One edition.
£12.99

F-80 Shooting Star Units Over Korea by Warren Thompson.

F-80 Shooting Star Units Over Korea by Warren Thompson.
One edition.
£12.99

Mustang Aces of the Eighth Air Force.

Mustang Aces of the Eighth Air Force.
One edition.
£12.99


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Air Combat Legends Vol II by Nicolas Trudgian. (FLY)

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Messerschmitt 109 by D A Lande.

First hand account from the Luftwaffe pilots are just one of the many rich features in Messerschmitt 109. Complete details of the aircrafts initial design, evolution, and combat history are all part of the package. Every major 109 variant, from the first prototype to the advanced K-models is covered. Join 109 pilots as they wreak havoc in the Battle of Britain, Africa, the Balkans, the Russian Front, and their final defence of the Fatherland. Strap yourself in and prepare for takeoff. Messerschmitt 109 is the premier escort for anyone interested in aviation history.


Air Combat Paintings Volume VI by Robert Taylor.

Over seventy images of aviation art paintings by artist Robert Taylor. This 128 page book includes over 27,000 words of text and a foreword by lifelong aviation enthusiast Peter Jackson.


Air Combat Paintings Volume VI by Robert Taylor.

Over seventy images of aviation art paintings by artist Robert Taylor. This 128 page book includes over 27,000 words of text and a foreword by lifelong aviation enthusiast Peter Jackson.


Casualties of the German Air Service 1914-1920 by Norman Franks, Frank Bailey and Rick Duiven.

A list of German aviation casualties was first published in 1932 by W von Eberhardt and this gave the vast majority of known losses of all kinds suffered by the Luftstreitkrafte. But some names and all units were missing and the listing was only A-Z. now Rick Duiven has put A-Z into chronological, making it easier for research, and has filled in many gaps. In the past some lists of officer casualties have appeared but in the case of two-seater losses, where either the pilot or observer was an NCO, it was difficult to know who the other member of the crew had been. Much of this information is now provided. All deaths are listed, whatever the cause, be it in an operational sortie, a training flight, a loss during an air raid, or by illness, especially from the world-wide influenza epidemic which swept Europe in 1918-l9. In addition, the date and place of birth of each airman is given, together with his place of death, first names and rank. There is also a supplementary list of known losses which were not fatal. Here is another reference work from this esteemed research team which increases our knowledge of the First Great Air War.


For Valour, the Air VCs by Chaz Bowyer.

Since its inception in 1856, the Victoria Cross, which takes precedence over all other awards, decorations and honours within the British Commonwealth - has been awarded on 1,350 occasions. Of these just 51 have been conferred on airmen. Here, for the first time, are the complete and accurate biographies of each of those men.


German Air Force in the Great War Major Georg Paul Neumann.

An English translation of the official history of the German Air Force in the Great War. The first part of the book deals with the technical details of the German aircraft , Zeppelin airships and balloons, and the training of its personnel. The second half is an historical account of its wartime actions. There are chapters on day and night-time bombing, on anti-aircraft defences and on seaplanes, but the attention of most English-speaking readers will surely focus upon Part II, Chapter Five, which is devoted to the air war over the western front. Befitting an official history, throughout there is more emphasis on the air force as a whole than on the exploits of individual air aces.


War in a Stringbag by Charles Lamb.

Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. In this now-famous account, filled with fantastic incident and casual heroism, he tells the story of how he used this Stringbag to deadly effect against the Germans, the Italians and the Japanese during the Second World War.


Fighter Pilot by Paul Richey.

Fighter Pilot grew out of a journal which the then 23-year-old Flying Officer Richey began the day he landed his Hawker Hurricane on a grass airfield in France. Published in September 1941, it was the first such account of the war in the air and struck an immediate chord with a British public enthralled by the exploits of its young airmen: by January 1942, the book was already in its sixth impression. Yet this brisk narrative is much more than merely a diary and logbook combined. For Richey was not only a natural writer; he also knew by now all too well of what he wrote. There have been innumerable first-hand accounts of the Second World War in the air, but few have so accurately depicted the thrill and terror of air fighting, and very few have matched the warmth and pathos, the immediacy and honesty of Paul Richeys. His was the first such account, and it remains by far the best.


Torpedo Leader by Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs.

This book gives new insight into the often haphazard way war was waged in the Mediterranean, the daily dangers, the inevitable losses. Gibbs contribution was immense. As Laddie Lucas has written, there were few operational efforts in World War II to compare with it. There is not the least doubt that the success of his strike operation had a material effect upon the fortunes of our 8th Army in the Desert and the outcome of Alamein.


One Night in June by Kevin Shannon and Stephen Wright.

One Night in June is an account of the Glider Pilot Regiments role in Operation Tonga, the first stage of the Airborne assault in the Normandy landings in June 1944.The story includes stories of crew who evaded capture by the Germans and pays tribute to the help they received from local Resistance fighters. The contribution of the nine gliders which took part in the Coup de Main landings has been well-documented but of the other eighty-nine gliders which took part little has been written.This book tells the full story.


History of No. 30 Squadron - Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919 by Maj J Everidge.

30 Squadron served in the Middle East theatre in the Great War after being formed from different Flights in England, Egypt and Mesopotamia (Iraq) The narrative opens early in 1915 with operations by C Flight to thwart Turkeys thrust towards the Suez Canal. A Flight was formed in Mesopotamia by Imperial details from India, Australia and New Zealand operating out of Basra, while B Flight came from England. The squadron helped supply the besieged garrison at Kut -al-Asmara, dropping supplies by parachute. It also fell victim to the capitulation of General Townshends army at Kut, where many of its records were lost. Two of its officers, along with their observers and about 40 groundcrew, were captured by the Turks and forced to take part in a death march to Mosul in northern Iraq in which most of them perished. Equipped at first with seaplanes converted for use on land, the squadron later used the unreliable Maurice Farmans, (The destruction of three of these in a gale in 1916, the history laconically remarks probably saved several flying officers to the Service) The squadron finally gained air superiority over the Turks, who were equipped with German Fokker and Albatros aircraft, when they were re-equipped with B.E2Cs, Voisins, and later with 120 Martinsydes. The desert climate presented special difficulties for flying, including dust storms, engines overheating, and warping of spars and propellors, but the squadron maintained daily patrols despite such arduous problems. After re-entrenching following the fall of Kut on April 29th 1916, the British went over to the offensive in December 1916, and by mid-March 1918 the Turks had been cleared from the Tigris and Baghdad had fallen. 30 Squadron supported the offensive with reconaissance, bombing and other combat missions. This history is an engrossing account of a difficult and often neglected front of the Great War, and sheds light on similar problems encountered by coaltion forces currently deployed in the same region.


The Annals of 100 Squadron.

Major C Gordon Burge.

100 Squadron was a pioneer night bombing unit, and was the first to be raised specifically for that purpose by Hugh Trenchard, the father of the RAF who contributes a foreword to this history, commending the squadron, and its willingness to go out and bomb in all weathers, and the ability of its groundcrew to keep their aircraft airbourne in all conditions. . This book traces the squadrons story from its formation in March 1917 to the Armistice in November 1918. Equipped with F.E.2B and BE2 aircraft, the squadron, based at Izel Le Hameau airfield, commenced its life with a raid against Douai aerodrome. In May 1917 the squadron transferred to Trexennes airfield near Aire, where, according to the author the concert pitch of the Squadrons work was achieved. Forced to evacuate this site during the German advance of 1918, 100 transferred to Ochey in Alsace-Lorriane from where it carried out night raids on Germany itself. - including on Frankfurt, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. Shortly before the war ended, the squadron took delivery of the new and advanced Handley-Page bombers. This full history of the squadrons activities included many photographs of its men, its machines, and reconnaisance shots of the damage it did.


Tail Gunner by R C Rivaz DFC.

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Aces and Pilots of the US 8th/9th Air Forces by Jerry Scutts.

When the US Air Force joined the allied bomber offensive against Germany from August 1942, their Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers, flying by day, took a terrible punishment at the hands of the Luftwaffe. It rapidly became clear that the USAAFs reliance on the bombers own defences was not enough. A US fighter capacity would have to be developed - and fast. This book tells the story of what followed. By 1943 the P-51 Mustang long-range fighter had arrived, which, along with the P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bombers, turned the tide of the air war in favour of the allies. This illustrated history tells the full story of these aircraft, and their part in such historic operations as D-day and the 1944/45 battle of the Bulge. The text is supported by an appendix listing the top 100 American air aces, participating air units and their squadron codes.


Naval Aviation in the First World War by R D Layman.

The Royal Naval Air Service in the Great War was at the cutting edge of military progress. Backed by the dynamic First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, the RNAS pioneered such tactics as strategic bombing, anti-submarine warfare, and long-range air reconnaisance as well as the development of aircraft carriers. But this fine history does not confine itself to Britain: there are sections on such subjects as the Imperial Russian Navys seaplane-carrier squadron in the Black Sea; on balloon observation at sea, and on the part played by naval aviation in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign. This full and fascinating history is illustrated by a range of black and white photographs.


Lockheed P-38 Lightning by Michael OLeary.

The Cadillac of USAAF fighters in World War 2, the Lightning was a highly innovative design produced by Lockheed of Burbank, California, in response to a challenging requirement for a long range, high speed and high altitude fighter to escort the AAFs rapidly expanding B17 and B24 Heavy bomber fleets. To meet the criterion laid down in the requirement, the company adopted a revolutionary twin boom layout and supercharged Allison engines. The latter initially proved troublesome but the gremlins were eventually sorted out and the type went on to see much action in Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Pacific and the CBI. Using the best Lockheed official and private archival black and white photographs available, combined with period colour advertisements, a double-page cutaway drawing and scale plans, this volume reveals all facets of the Lightnings construction and frontline use.


F-51 Mustang Units Over Korea by Warren Thompson.

When the Korean War erupted in late June 1950, the USAFs standard fighter in the Far East was the F-80 Shooting Star. Although the aircraft soon proved the master of the North Korean Air Force, its lack of endurance resulted in the USAF rushing 145 obsolescent F-51 Mustangs to the theatre - these aircraft quickly commenced operations against the troop columns moving south. The 8th, 18th and 35th Fighter-Bomber Wings were the primary operators of the Mustang, along with the South African Air Forces No 2 Squadron, the Royal Australian Air Forces No 77 Squadron and the embryonic Republic of Korea Air Force - photo-recce RF-51Ds also served in-theatre, and by the time the war ended in 1953, some 194 Mustangs had been lost - ten to enemy fighters, twelve in operational accidents and the rest to anti-aircraft fire. This volume illustrates all the users of the F-51/RF-51 during the Korean War in contemporary colour. These aircraft were some of the most colourful Mustangs ever to see action, and the author has used his extensive contacts to accumulate the largest private collection of Korean colour material in the world. Accompanying the photographs are detailed captions, quotes from pilots in action and a full appendices listing of the various units, plus specifications and cutaways of the aircraft flown.


F-86 Sabre Fighter - Bomber Units Over Korea by Warren Thompson.

The exploits of the F-86 fighter interceptor units in Korea are legendary, the North American fighter cutting a swathe through the ranks of communist MiG-15s that threatened the United Nations aerial supremacy over the battlefield. However, the vital role played by the two fighter-bomber wings that re-equipped with the F-86F in early 1953 have received far less attention. Ironically, these aircraft were some of the most colourful Sabres of the war, as this all-colour volume dedicated to FBW Sabres, and their operations, graphically shows. The 8th and 18th FBWs had flown F-51s and F-80s during the first two years of the war, and the arrival of mud-moving Sabres greatly enhanced the capabilities of these seasoned units.The new aircraft could carry two 1000-lb bombs, two 120-gal external fuel tanks and 1800 rounds of 0.50-cal ammunition to any point in North Korea. The F-86F was also much faster than its piston-and jet engined predecessors, allowing pilots to deal with both MiG-15s and AAA far more effectively. This volume illustrates all users of the F-86F, including the South African Air Forces No 2 Sqn, which flew with the 19th FBW, in contemporary wartime colour. Accompanying the photographs are detailed caption, quotes from pilots in action and an appendices which includes a double-page cutaway and full specifications.


F-80 Shooting Star Units Over Korea by Warren Thompson.

Although serving pre-war as the USAFs first successful jet fighter interceptor, the F-80 actually made a name for itself in combat as a strike bomber during the Korean War. Indeed, during the first four months of the conflict, F-80Cs bore the brunt of the fighting against a numerically superior communist force, flying 15,000 sorties. A Shooting Star also shot down the first MiG-15 claimed during the campaign in what is believed to have been the worlds first ever jet-versus-jet engagement. Flown principally by the 8th and 49th Fighter Bomber Wings in Korea, F-80Cs completed an amazing 98,515 combat sorties, shot down 17 aircraft (including three MiG-15s) dropped 33,266 tons of bombs and fired off 80,935 air-to-ground rockets. Aside from the fighter-bomber F-80C, the ultra rare, but heavily used photo-reconnaissance RF-80A is also featured within this all-colour volume - the first in print devoted exclusively to the Lockheed Shooting Star in Korea.


Mustang Aces of the Eighth Air Force.

Unquestionably the best American fighter of World War 2, the North American P-51 Mustang served in large numbers with the USAAFs Eighth Air Force from late 1943 until VE Day, and was the mount of most aces in-theatre. Charged with the responsibility of escorting huge formations of B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers on daylight raids deep into Germany, the P-51 pilots of the various fighter groups within the Mighty Eighth went head to head with the cream of the Luftwaffes fighter squadrons for control of the skies over the Third Reich.

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