Author: Dundas, Hugh,
Title: FLYING START - A Fighter Pilot's War Years.
Description: Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 1991), reprint, paperback, 226pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, [i] ads., pictorial montage upper wrapper, the author's WW2 experiences, joining 616 Squadron, Auxilliary Air Force as a pupil pilot in May 1939, flying a Spitfire, he served with 610 squadron and promoted to command 56 Squadron in December 1941, appointed Wing Commander late 1942 serving with 324 Wing (Typhoons) in Tunisia and Sicily, and 244 Wing for the Normandy invasion, he was the youngest Group Captain when appointed in November, 1944, and winner of a bar to his DSO in March, 1945, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical creasing to spine, edges tanned, very good,
Keywords: war ww2 raf bob spitfire typhoon western desert tunisia sicily normandy 616 56 610 squadron 324 244 wing vf44
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Title: FLYING START - A Fighter Pilot's War Years.
Description: Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 1991), reprint, paperback, 226pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, [i] ads., pictorial montage upper wrapper, the author's WW2 experiences, joining 616 Squadron, Auxilliary Air Force as a pupil pilot in May 1939, flying a Spitfire, he served with 610 squadron and promoted to command 56 Squadron in December 1941, appointed Wing Commander late 1942 serving with 324 Wing (Typhoons) in Tunisia and Sicily, and 244 Wing for the Normandy invasion, he was the youngest Group Captain when appointed in November, 1944, and winner of a bar to his DSO in March, 1945, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical creasing to spine, edges tanned, very good,
Keywords: war ww2 raf bob spitfire typhoon western desert tunisia sicily normandy 616 56 610 squadron 324 244 wing vf44
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- Book number: 42666
- Book number: 42666
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