Author: CAYGILL, PETER.
Title: Biggin Hill WIng - 1941 Fron Defence to Attack.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. vi, 200; 32 pages of b/w photograph illustrations some full-page; 5 appendicies index; original cloth, dustjacket; a fine copy. (Great Britain), Pen & Sword AVIATION (2008). The book is an in-depth study of England's most famous fighter station during the year after the Battle of Britain. It looks at the political upheaval within Fighter Command that saw the removal of Dowding and Park and their replacement by Sholto Douglas and Leigh-Mallory. The ongoing Big Wing controversy and the resulting change in tactics during 1941 both examined.

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