Author: Dunn, Bill Newton,
Title: BIG WING - The biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory KCB, DSO and Bar.
Description: Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1992, 1st edn., [viii], 200pp, 20pp half tone photo ills., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, the biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, a career airman who joined the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 and continued to serve in the Royal Air Force between the wars, becoming the commander of 12 Group during the Battle of Britain and controversial advocate of 'the big wing', a tactic fiercely opposed by the commander of 11 Group (as 12 Group's support was usually too late as a result of waiting to form a big wing), he went on the command 11 Group after Park, was air-commander at the Dieppe Raid, appointed CIC Fighter Command in 1942 and commander and after lobbying for a unified air commander for the Normandy invasion was appointed to the post, losing his life in in August 1944 en route to Burma, a little bumped at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly creased at extrems., very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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