Author: Coldbeck, Sqdn. Ldr.,
Title: THE MALTESE SPITFIRE - One Pilot, One Plane - Find Enemy Forces On Land And Sea.
Description: Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1997, 1st edn., 176pp, 20pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, light blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the WW2 experiences of a New Zealand pilot with the Royal Air Force, his early flying days in New Zealnand, operational training in Canada before posting in 1941 to RAF 66 Squadron, flying Spitfires from Perranporth and then Portreath before he volunteered for photo-reconnaisance and was posted to Malta in 1942, flying unarmed at high altitude seeking the Italian fleet and other enemy shipping before baling out over the sea, capture and serving the remainder of the war as a POW in Italy and Germany, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 raf malta siege spitfire 66 squadron photo reconnaisance mediterranean


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