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| Author | : Hugh Trivett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
14 August 1940, which Hitler code-named 'Adlertag', or 'Eagle Day', was fated to become one of the most significant days in the Battle of Britain. It signified the start of the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive, planned to cripple Britain and clear the path for the German troops ammased in readiness for invasion. The Luftwaffe sent out waves of unescorted bombers to attack targets by daylight, hoping to confuse the fighter defences with the small but numerous bomb formations. The tactic was a calculated gamble that cost the Germans deeply. Despite successes in attacking and damaging airfields, the losses were severe and and the following day Goering vetoed such tactics, now convinced his bombers could never operate over Britain without fighter cover. Using first-hand recollections of both Luftwaffe and RAF pilots as well as local witnesses to the day's action, gleaned from interviews and written accounts, author and researcher Hugh Trivett relays the events of notorious 'Eagle Day', as experienced by those who were actively involved. Using many unpublished photographs from his own collections as well as those contributors who dicussed their memories with him, Hugh Trivett has collated the definitive record of Eagle Day.
| Author | : Hugh Trivett |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2016-09-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 075098130X |
14 August 1940, which Hitler code-named ‘Adlertag’, or ‘Eagle Day’, was fated to become one of the most significant days in the Battle of Britain. It signified the start of the Luftwaffe’s aerial offensive, planned to cripple Britain and clear the path for the German troops ammased in readiness for invasion. The Luftwaffe sent out waves of unescorted bombers to attack difficult and long-range targets by daylight, hoping to confuse and split the fighter defences with the small but numerous bomb formations. The tactic was a calculated gamble and one that cost the Germans deeply. Despite successes in attacking and damaging airfields, the losses were severe and and the following day Goering vetoed such tactics, now convinced his bombers could never operate over Britain without fighter cover. Using first-hand recollections of both Luftwaffe and RAF pilots as well as local witnesses to the day’s action, gleaned from interviews and written accounts and with many unpublished photographs, Hugh Trivett has collated the definitive record of Eagle Day.
| Author | : Ken Delve |
| Publisher | : THP |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2016-01-06 |
| Genre | : Spitfire (Fighter plane) |
| ISBN | : 9780750965286 |
In a combat career that spanned the entirety of the Second World War, the Spitfire earned a reputation as the iconic fighter that friend and foe alike wanted to fly. Affectionately known as the 'Spit', the aircraft played a vital part in helping to lift the morale of the British public at home during the Second World War, where many a donation of pots and pans was made to support Spitfire production.Yet it was the RAF pilots responsible for flying the Spitfire in combat who knew, respected and loved this aeroplane the best. In this book author Ken Delve re-examines the Spitfire's reputation using a wealth of important primary materials, including combat records, official trial reports and the personal accounts of those who flew the aircraft.The Story of the Spitfire charts the combat evolution of arguably the most important aerial fighting machine of the Second World War.
| Author | : Peter Haining |
| Publisher | : Virgin Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Gordon Olive |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2015-07-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1445644371 |
The amazing story of one of ‘the Few’, Spitfire fighter pilot Gordon Olive, who shot down ten enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain.
| Author | : Leslie Weddell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 2017-08-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781522028468 |
"In the desperate months of August to October of 1940, the fate of the British Nation lay in the hands of a few brave fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force that fought daily life and death battles against the might of the German Luftwaffe. It was to become known as the Battle of Britain. When the German High Command realized they were not going to defeat the RAF so easily, Hitler canceled his invasion plans, blaming Luftwaffe Supreme Commander Reich Marschall Hermann Goering for failing to keep his promise to obliterate the RAF from the skies."
| Author | : Derek Dempster |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2010-06-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1848843143 |
The Battle of Britain saved the country from invasion. If the RAF had been defeated all the efforts of the British Army and the Royal Navy would hardly have averted defeat in the face of complete German air superiority. With all Europe subjugated, Germany and Japan would later have met on the borders of India. This remarkable book traces the varied fortunes of the Royal Air Force in the 1930s, and shows how it readied itself for the mighty German onslaught in the summer of 1940 and won a great victory by the narrowest margins. It provides a comphrensive account of the Battle of Britain, including the day-by-day summaries of the battle. It is illustrated with photographs and maps, an appendix of the aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and by the Luftwaffe with schematic drawings, also a list of all pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain from July 10 to October 31 1940. The authors are military aviation experts and The Narrow Margin has been published in translation in France and around the world. They also wrote A Summer for Heroes and Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook.
| Author | : Brian Lane |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 122 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Air pilots, Military |
| ISBN | : 1848683545 |
The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of Spitfire pilot Brian Lane, DFC. Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic account of life as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. Lane was an 'ace' with six enemy 'kills' to his credit and was awarded the DFC for bravery in combat. The text is honest and vibrant, and has the immediacy of a book written close the event, untouched, therefore, by the doubts and debates of later years. Here we can read, exactly what it was like to 'scramble', to shoot down Messerschmitts, Heinkels, Dorniers and Stukas and how it felt to lose comrades every day. Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC was not only an exceptional fighter pilot but likewise a gifted leader, at all levels. In what was still a hierarchical and class conscious culture, 'Chiefy' Lane was different: he knew everyone under his command by first names, no matter how lowly their rank or status, and in the air he was always unflappable, calmly making the right tactical decision and in the process earning unlimited respect amongst pilots and aircrew. All these years later the survivors still speak of him with an unparalleled affection and respect bordering upon a holy reverence. High drama has never before been so characteristically understated, written, as it was, by the 'Finest of the Few'.
| Author | : Max Arthur |
| Publisher | : Skyhorse |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2011-08-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1628730463 |
After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler’s inevitable invasion attempt. For the German army to land across the channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies—the Royal Air Force would have to be broken. So every day throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the southern counties. Greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command scrambled as many as five times a day, and civilians watched skies crisscrossed with the contrails from the constant dogfights between Spitfires and Me-109s. Britain’s very freedom depended on the outcome of that summer’s battle: Its air defenses were badly battered and nearly broken, but against all odds, “The Few,” as they came to be known, bought Britain’s freedom—many with their lives. More than a fifth of the British and Allied pilots died during the Battle of Britain. These are the personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle. Their stories are as riveting, as vivid, and as poignant as they were seventy years ago. We will not see their like again.
| Author | : Flt. Lt. D. M. Crook DFC |
| Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 511 |
| Release | : 2015-11-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1786257491 |
Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 200 maps, plans, and photos. David Moore Cook, or DMC to his friends and colleagues, was one of the valiant “Few” who flew and fought against the Luftwaffe in the summer and autumn of 1940 during the Battle of Britain. A native of Huddersfield, he joined 609 (West Riding) Squadron before the war, the squadron was posted to RAF Middle Wallop in Hampshire north of the vital ports of Southampton and Portsmouth, and was tasked with protection of the English coast. In this gripping account of the combats that raged in the skies above the British mainland, DMC is very modest of his own achievements, which had led by November 1940 to 6 confirmed victories. In recognition of his sterling record he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and assigned to be a flying instructor in late 1940 to help train the pilots who would fill the depleted ranks of fighter command. Having survived the long odds of the Battle of Britain, Flight Lieutenant Crook did not survive the war, he was listed as missing in action during a routine reconnaissance mission off the coast of Scotland.
