Author: Nesbit, Roy Conyers,
Title: AN EXPENDABLE SQUADRON - The Story of 217 Squadron, Coastal Command, 1939-1945.
Description: Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2014, 1st edn., [vi], half tone fronti portrait, 250pp, maps, diagrams and numerous half tone photo ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the operational experiences of Coastal Command's 217 Squadron, low level missions against shipping and coastal installations, at first in Ansons over the Western Approaches to the Channel, then in Beauforts attacking shipping along the west coast of German occupied France and minelaying, then a spell in Malta sinking enemy shipping in the Mediterranean, to the later years of the war when based in Ceylon re-eqipped with Beaufighers against the Japanese, as well as telling the story of the squadron and the men who served in it the narrative covers the conditions endured by the French on the ground of their occupied country, edges faintly tanned, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 raf coastal command 217 squadron ansons, beauforts beaufighters


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