Author: McLachlan, Ian (foreword Len Deighton),
Title: FINAL FLIGHTS - Dramatic wartime incidents revealed by aviation archeology.
Description: Patrick Stephens / Thorsens Group, England, ND (copyright 1989), 1st edn., 256pp, numerous in text half tone photo ills. and some in line, coloured endpapers, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.) dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo montage dustwrapper, a detailed account of the circumstances leading to aircraft losses in Suffolk and Norfolk, WW2, incl. investigation of crash sites; Hurricane, 17 Squadron, (Ufford, Nov. 1940), Stirling, 90 Sqn (Sedge Fen, Nov. 1943), P-38 Lightning, 55th Fighter Group USAAF (Ludham, Dec. 1943), two B-17 Fortresses, 549th and 550th Bomb Sqns, USAAF 385th Bomb. Group (Reedham, Feb. 1944), Mosquito, 68 Sqn (crewed by USN, Somerleyton, Nov, 1944), B-17 Fortress, 349th Sqn, USAAF 100th Bomb. Group (Herringfleet, May 1944), two P-47 Thunderbolts, 5th Em. Rescue Sqn, USAAF (Fritton, April 1945), B-17 'Baby 8' (ex 351st BG) of the ill-fated Aphrodite project (Watling Wood, near Woodbridge, Aug. 1944), B-24 Liberator, 785th Sq., USAAF 466th Bomb. Group (Tunstall near Norwich, July 1944) and others, inscribed by author on piece pasted to half title together with loosley inserted TLS on the author's headed notepaper, lightly bumped at extrems., small ownership label front free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, repaired nicks at upper edge, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 raf usaaf crash sites ufford sedge fen lakenheath ludham reedham somerleyton fritton sudbury tunstall norwich signed


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