David Price's atmospheric narrative interweaves the human stories of the crews of 627 Squadron with events in the wider war as the Allies closed in on Germany from the summer of 1944.
Discusses the achievements of a generation of aviators who flew uncharted courses over oceans and wilderness during the decades between the World Wars.
Martyn Chorlton has written a gripping account of the RAF?s Pathfinder squadrons, recalling the often reckless heroism of the young aircrew and the challenges they faced in the smoke-filled skies over occupied Europe.
This illustrated series presents every aspect of the German Air Force in World War II, on all fronts and in widely varying conditions.
Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics...
Two gripping memoirs by British night-fighter crewmen Action-adventure tales of aerial combat aboard Beaufighter and Mosquito aircraft Accounts of Pathfinders who flew ahead of bomber formations and marked targets deep inside German ...
This is the first and only book by a Pathfinder in Vietnam . . . or anywhere else.
On 11 July P/O Osborne spent fifty minutes introducing Bertie to the Blenheim Mk V. The following day a further type-familiarization sortie took place for nearly one and a half hours, before P/O Osborne jumped out to let F/ Lt Bonakis ...
REAR GUNNER PATHFINDERS
Fonck did his part: Jablonski, Atlantic Fever, 78; letter, Hartney to Jones, October 6, 1926; Jack Huttig, 1927: Summer of Eagles (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980), 6. Despite the calm, Hartney's patience wore thin: Letter, Hartney to Jones, ...