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Franks, Norman, ed. (Neville Duke.) THE WAR DIARIES OF NEVILLE DUKE: THE JOURNALS OF SQUADRON LEADER N F DUKE, DSO, OBE, DFC & 2 BARS, AFC, MC (Cz), 1941-44.
Grub Street, London, (1995).
218 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2"H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1898697167 B&w maps, photos. "Joining the RAF at the beginning of the war, (Neville Duke) found himself, aged 19, as a young fighter pilot with the crack 92 Squadron at RAF Biggin Hill, in 1941. That spring and summer he survived the air battles over Northern France with the Biggin Hill Wing, often flying as wingman to the legendary 'Sailor' Malan - Fighter Command's top-scoring pilot at that time. In those months he learn t t h e fighter pilot's trade, lessons that were to prove invaluable when, in November, he was posted to a very different war in the Western Desert. Flying the famous 'Shark-Mouthed' P40B Tomahawk fighters with 112 Sqn, he quickly established him se l f as o n e of the most successful pilots in North Africa, winning the DFC and bar. By 1943 he was flight commander with his old 92 Squadron which had also become part of the Desert Air Force. Again flying Spitfires, he had scored twenty-one by th e end of t he Tunisian Campaign, was a warded the DSO, then given command of 145 Spitfire Squadron in Italy. Leading this unit in the summer of 1944 he brough his score to twenty-eight, returning home in late 1944 as the highest scoring pil ot in th e Me dite rra nean Theatre..." Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top of spine, very light rubbing. This is a new unread book. Fine/Very Good+
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32.50 USD
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