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  • Coming in to Land – the memoirs of Wing Commander Bill Malins DFC

    by Bill Malins ...
    At the age of 95, Bill Malins still remembers growing up on an Oxfordshire farm in the 1920s, where he would help with the haymaking, steer a horse-drawn harrow, milk a cow and ride sheep for entertainment. Amid the happiness there were moments of tragedy. There was the loss of his baby sister to peritonitis when Bill was seven years old. A couple of years later he had to stand by as the farm was ... Read more

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  • Coming in to Land

    The Memoirs of Wing Commander Bill Malins DFC

    by Bill Malins ...
    Bill Malins lifelong devotion to the family farm was matched only by his desire to serve his king and country as a reconnaissance pilot during the Second World War, when he earned a DFC for bravery in action whilst flying behind enemy lines following a daring reconnaissance mission over Belgium. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Kenneth Lee DFC

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  • The Saga of a Canadian Typhoon Fighter Pilot

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    The Hawker Typhoon despite numerous technical flaws, was the finest ground support aircraft in Europe during World War II. At the same time the stories of the brave men who flew this difficult aircraft remain untold and unacknowledged. From his enlistment in Toronto through the final flights over Germany, this is the memoir of Jack Hilton, an RCAF fighter pilot, who successfully flew this ... Read more

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  • Bomber Flight Berlin

    by Mike Rossiter ...
    'We believed in ourselves so much, no one ever panicked, even when the situation looked so desperate. We all believed that our best chance of staying alive was to stick together.'Flying Lancaster bombers was one of the most dangerous missions of the war. Yet night after night Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey King and the crew of C Charlie risked their lives in the skies over Germany. Together they faced ... Read more

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  • Unsung Heroes of the RCAF

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    More than 250,000 courageous men and women were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. These Canadians fought valiantly in every major air operation from the Battle of Britain to the bombing of Germany. Thousands lost their lives. Those who survived to tell their stories were forever changed. Here are some of their incredible stories. ... Read more

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  • Into the Darkness

    by Arthur R. Hoyle ...
    Our Lancaster raced over the perimeter track and then tore down the slope through the dispersal area... with its wheels thumping on the grass but still firmly on the ground. It now seemed that nothing could save us and that, in the next couple of moments, we would disappear in a great explosion. I could hear Bob saying "Get off the ground, you bastard, get off," while Harry just said nothing... ... Read more

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  • Fighting the Flying Circus

    by Eddie Rickenbacker ...
    One of the best first-hand accounts of air combat in World War I, by an American “ace of aces.” Eddie Rickenbacker had an extraordinary career: inventor, race car driver, fighter ace, Medal of Honor winner, and finally president of Eastern Air Lines. In this book he recounts how he achieved 26 confirmed kills in less than a year of combat on the Western Front, rising from the ranks to lead the ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 373 - Mammoth Books
    From yesteryear's flying aces to today's top guns...Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand accounts from all the great military campaigns of aerial warfare, including World Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. Page after exciting page of this singular collection brings into vivid play the exploits of such legendary pilots as ... Read more

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  • Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot

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    A Nazi Germany fighter pilot gives readers a bird's-eye view from the cockpit of aerial combat against the Allied forces in World War II.Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five of the succeeding six years of hostilities in uniform. During this time he was given a succession of postings varying from a long-range recce unit; as ... Read more

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  • Under a Bomber's Moon: The true story of two airmen at war over Germany

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    They were the best of enemies dedicated, skilled and deadly. In the night skies above wartime Germany an RAF navigator-bomber from New Zealand and a Luftwaffe pilot seek out their targets, testing the gap between success and their own destruction as they cross each others paths. The odds are heavily against either of them making it through the war, but as this sobering realisation displaces their ... Read more

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