Author: TICKELL Jerrard
Title: Moon Squadron. FIRST ACCOUNT OF SOE'S AIRCRAFT
Description: Allan Wingate,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at upper edge of front panel. The first dedicated account, necessarily fragmentary, of the handful of RAF aircraft assigned to SOE. Initially led by Fielden, the 'moon squadrons' (mainly Hudsons and Lysanders) ferried agents to and fro throughout Occupied Europe. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.401

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, espionage, soe, special operations executive, tempsford, tangmere, lysander, aviation, royal air force, raf, jerrard tickell


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