Ethell, Jeffrey and Price, Alfred,

TARGET BERLIN - Mission 250 : 6 March 1944.

Jane's, London, 1981, 1st edn. UK, xii, 212pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, wrapround pictorial dustwrapper, a minute-by-minute account of the first large scale American daylight raid on Berlin, mission 250 on 6th March, 1944, when 69 heavy bombers and 11 fighter escorts failed to return, as told by the USAAF bomber crews and their fighter escort pilots, Luftwaffe pilots and German flak gunners, and the men and women of Berlin, with appendices itemising the Bomb Groups and Fighter Groups involved and their targets, the Luftwaffe fighter units involved with the defence, the losses by bomber and fighter group, etc., lightly rubbed at extrems., upper edge dusty and all edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rippled, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36341

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 usaaf luftwaffe

Ethell, Jeffrey and Price, Alfred,

TARGET BERLIN - Mission 250 : 6 March 1944.

Jane's, London, 1981, 1st edn. UK, xii, 212pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, wrapround pictorial dustwrapper, a minute-by-minute account of the first large scale American daylight raid on Berlin, mission 250 on 6th March, 1944, when 69 heavy bombers and 11 fighter escorts failed to return, as told by the USAAF bomber crews and their fighter escort pilots, Luftwaffe pilots and German flak gunners, and the men and women of Berlin, with appendices itemising the Bomb Groups and Fighter Groups involved and their targets, the Luftwaffe fighter units involved with the defence, the losses by bomber and fighter group, etc., upper edges of boards a litte sunned, edges stanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips with short tear upper flap fold, repaired to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40954

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 usaaf luftwaffe

Ethell, Jeffrey and Price, Alfred,

TARGET BERLIN - Mission 250: 6 March 1944.

Book Club Associates, London, 1981, club end., xii, 212pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, wrapround coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a minute-by-minute account of the first large scale American daylight raid on Berlin, mission 250 on 6th March, 1944, when 69 heavy bombers and 11 fighter escorts failed to return, as told by the USAAF bomber crews and their fighter escort pilots, Luftwaffe pilots and German flak gunners, and the men and women of Berlin, with appendices itemising the Bomb Groups and Fighter Groups involved and their targets, the Luftwaffe fighter units involved with the defence, the losses by bomber and fighter group, etc., lightly bumped at extrems., edges tanned, corner of one leaf truned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed and creased at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41225

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 usaaf luftwaffe

Feist, Uwe, Harms, Norman E. and Dario, Mike,

THE FIGHTING 109 - A Pictorial History of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 in Action.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1978, 1st edn. UK, x, 198pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, coloured and half tone ills. in text, large format (10.5 x 7 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an illustrated account of the development and operational use of the Messerschmitt 109, probably the best all round figher ever produced, from its combat testing in the Spanish Civil war through most theatres of WW2 to the defence of the German homeland in 1945, with numerous monotone photo-illustrations, most from the Berlin Bundesarchiv, of the 109 in action as well as many cockpit photos of its most famous pilots, upper edge tanned, partial tanning to endpapers, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43545

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 luftwaffe messerschmitt bf 109 fighter

Fleming, Samuel P. (as told to Ed. Y. Hall),

FLYING WITH THE HELL'S ANGELS - 303rd Bombardment Group (H) Eighth Air Force, 1943-1944.

Honoribus Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina, ND (copyright 1991), paperback, xii, 130pp inc. 4pp ads., half tone frontis portrait, half tone ills. in text, half tone photo pictorial wrappers, the experiences of a B-17 Flying Fortress navigator, his enlistment and training for flying duties, the journey to Europe and assignment to 360th Sqadron, 303rd Bombardment Group (Hell's Angels) at Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, and his 30 mission tour of duty before returning to USA and an instructor's post, fine,

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Book number: 39587

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 air force usaaf molesworth cambridgeshire

Foreman, John,

BATTLE OF BRITAIN - The Forgotten Months November and December 1940.

Air Research, New Malden, 1988, 1st edn., 222pp, half tone photo ills. in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound coloured pictorial dustwrapper, telling for the first time the combats between the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force during November and December 1940, beyond the end of the Battle of Britain but, as German sources argue, their battle continued until May 1941. On some days during this period there was more combat activity than during the accepted Battle of Britain and the losses are recorded on a daily basis with dates, aircraft details incl. type, serial number, squadron, some aircrew names, where the combat took place, etc., with Orders of Battle for both air forces as at 26th October for Luftwaffe and 1st November for RAF, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40882

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 raf luftwaffe bob

Francis, Charles E. (ed. Adolph Caso),

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN - The Men Who Changed A Nation.

Branden, 5th commemorative edn., 559pp, numerous half tone in text illustrations, no dustwrapper, coloured pictorial boards as issued, an account of the history and achievements of African Americans in the US Army Air Corps during WW2, of their struggle to overcome the racial segregation that existed, and of the men whio went on to form the basis of the 99th Pursuit Squadron and later the 332nd Fighter Group which saw service in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, and the 477th Bombardment Group which did not serve in combat, with individual accounts, class photographs, etc.fine,

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Book number: 42508

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 usaaf tuskegee black integration

Frankland, Noble,

BOMBER OFFENSIVE : THE DEVASTATION OF EUROPE.

Macdonald, London, 1970, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, numerous half tone photo and line ills., and maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Campaign Book No. 7', an account of the RAF bomber offensive in Europe from September 1939 to December 1942 and the later combined Allied offensive after USAAF forces arrived from January 1943 to May 1945, slight slant to spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., slight creasing to wrappers with multi-currency label upper wrapper, pages a little tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43636

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 air force history raf usaaf fighter escort bomber command campaign 8th vf44 purnells

Frankland, Noble,

BOMBER OFFENSIVE : THE DEVASTATION OF EUROPE.

Macdonald, London, 1970, 1st edn., trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone photo and line ills., and maps, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Campaign Book No. 7', an account of the RAF bomber offensive in Europe from September 1939 to December 1942 and the later combined Allied offensive after USAAF forces arrived from January 1943 to May 1945, sl. slant to spine and a little rubbed at extrems., surface loss to upper wrapper and tail of spine where label removed, light ink marks upper wrapper, pages tanned, fair,

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Book number: 43758

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 air force history raf usaaf fighter escort bomber command campaign 8th

Frankland, Noble,

BOMBER OFFENSIVE : THE DEVASTATION OF EUROPE.

Macdonald, London, 1970, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous in text half tone photo and line ills., and maps, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Campaign Book No. 7', an account of the RAF bomber offensive in Europe from September 1939 to December 1942 and the later combined Allied offensive after USAAF forces arrived from January 1943 to May 1945, lightly rubbed at extrems., very slight slant to spine, pages tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43759

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 air force history raf usaaf fighter escort bomber command campaign 8th

Frankland, Noble,

BOMBER OFFENSIVE : THE DEVASTATION OF EUROPE.

Macdonald, London, 1970, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, numerous half tone photo and line ills., and maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Campaign Book No. 7', an account of the RAF bomber offensive in Europe from September 1939 to December 1942 and the later combined Allied offensive after USAAF forces arrived from January 1943 to May 1945, slight slant to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges and pages lightly tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44916

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 air force history raf usaaf fighter escort bomber command campaign 8th

Franks, Norman,

DARK SKY, DEEP WATER.

Grub Street, London, 1999, paperback, vi, 218pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., larger format (9 x 6" approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, first hand accounts by aircrew and u-boat crews of encounters between German submarines and Allied aircraft, including RAF Coastal Command, Royal Canadian Air Force and units of the USAAF and USN Air Force, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 35335

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 raf usaaf u-boat coastal command

Franks, Norman L. R.,

HURRICANE AT WAR : 2.

Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1986, 1st edn., 128pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, half tone photo ills. throughout, map/diagram in text, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, oversize (11.5 x 8.5 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, a sequel to Chaz Bowyer's 'Hurricane at War' in a different format in which a selection of Hurricane pilots give their own accounts of their WW2 experiences, from the earliest days with the Air Component of the British Expeditionary Force in France, through Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Malta and North Africa, Burma, the Arakan and Normandy, the role of the Hurricane developing as the war progressed from a day fighter to night fighter, catapult and carrier borne versions and in fighter-bomber, photo reconnaisance and night intruder roles, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40281

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 raf hawker sea hurricane fighter bomber photo reconnaisance night intruder richey greenwood stones jensen gillam fittall smith todd storrar frost wray sheward gray warren hogan lister 1 3 17 28 56 67 71 73 79 85 87 95 111 127 128 135 137 146 164 1

Franks, Norman,

RAF FIGHTER COMMAND 1936-1968.

Patrick Stephens, Sparkford, 1992, 1st edn., 253pp, half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams throughout, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a history of Fighter Command, formed in 1936 and becoming stategically redundant by 1968, it traces the major roles played between those dates but mainly during WW2, with descriptions of the leaders and pilots, both those well known and those less so, tiny rub upper edge upper board, dustwrapper: small crease lower edge lower panel, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38088

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 raf fighter command

Franks, Norman,

RAF FIGHTER COMMAND 1936-1968.

Patrick Stephens, Sparkford, 1992 1st edn., 253pp, half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams throughout, coloured endpapers, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a history of Fighter Command, formed in 1936 and becoming stategically redundant by 1968, it traces the major roles played between those dates but mainly during WW2, with descriptions of the leaders and pilots, both those well known and those less so, faint bump upper tips, dustwrapper: very lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 44837

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 raf fighter command