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BOMBER BARONS.

By: Bowyer, Chaz.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Leo Cooper: 2001

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 27030

ISBN: 085052802X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

222 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs. "By the end of the Second World War, a grim total of 55,000 air crew of Bomber Command has lost their lives. This figure comprised no less than seventy per cent of RAF fatalities. Yet, unlike their more glamorous fighter pilot colleagues, very few bomber pilots or crewmen were familiar household names to the general public. However, within the ranks of the RAF itself, some individuals stood out gaining high reputations for their courage and leadership, a respect achieved regardless of the decorations they had won or the number of sorties flo...
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FIGHTER PILOT.

By: Strong, Colin & Hart-Davis, Duff. Forward by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Williamson.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Queen Anne Press/Macdonald & BBC Publications, (London, 1981), reprint.:

Seller ID: 9079

167 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w and color photos, silhouettes. "Only a select few in today's RAF pass out to fly fast jets - the Tornado, Harrier, Jaguar, Buccaneer, Phantom or Lightning. Flying at up to 950 feet per second, som etimes less than 250 feet above the ground to avoid enemy radar, a fast-jet pilot must possess formidable flying skills. His training must therefore also be formidable - and it is his exacting three-year training schedule that (this book ) f o l l o w s . . ." Very minor edgewear to boards. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has light edge wrinkling...
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Keyword: Honington

BOMBER BARONS.

FIGHTER PILOT.