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  • Atlantic Linchpin

    The Azores in Two World Wars

    by Guy Warner ...
    On a map the Azores appear as nine tiny specks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but their location was to prove strategically vital in two world wars. The Atlantic became a crucial battleground twice within the space of 25 years, as the US 'arsenal of democracy' sent firstly stores, arms, and equipment, followed by many thousands of troops to fight in Europe. In both desperate and closely ... Read more

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  • Nutts Corner: In War and Peace, 1941-1963

    by Guy Warner, Ernie Cromie ...
    Nutts Corner airfield was conceived and built during the Second World War, constructed for military use before evolving into a new civil airport for Northern Ireland in December 1946.Written by well-known aviation historians Guy Warner and the late Ernie Cromie, this is the first book to reveal the full story of Nutts Corner. It shares the history of the airfield, involving the RAF, RN and USAAF ... Read more

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  • World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer

    The Story and Diaries of Captain JM McCleery RNAS/RAF

    by Guy Warner ...
    Jack McCleery was born in Belfast in 1898, the son of a mill owning family. He joined the RNAS in 1916 as a Probationary Flight Officer. During the next ten months he completed his training at Crystal Palace, Eastchurch, Cranwell, Frieston, Calshot and Isle of Grain, flying more than a dozen landplanes, seaplanes and flying boats, gaining his wings as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant. In July 1917 he was ... Read more

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  • First in the Field

    651 Squadron Army Air Corps

    by Guy Warner ...
    Aviation historian Guy Warner's First in the Field is an essential history of the Royal Air Force's Air Observation Post Squadron formed in World War II.The premier Army Air Corps unit created on the airfield of England's Old Sarum on August 1, 1941, 651 Squadron was comprised of both Royal Air Force and Royal Artillery personnel whose mission was to work closely with army units in artillery ... Read more

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  • From Auster to Apache

    The History of 656 Squadron RAF/ACC 1942–2012

    by Guy Warner, John Learmont ...
    The complete story of 656 from WWII to today, with photos—"a well-written account of a remarkable squadron." —RAF Historical SocietyFirst formed on December 31, 1942, 656 Squadron has served with great distinction in India, Burma, Java, Malaya, Borneo, Hong Kong, the UK, the Falkland Islands, Bosnia, Kosovo, and, most recently, Afghanistan. This is 656's story, told in full and for the first time ... Read more

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  • Lighter Than Air

    The Life and Times of Wing Commander N.F. Usborne RN, Pioneer of Naval Aviation

    by Guy Warner ...
    Neville Florian Usborne entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1897. In the years between him joining up and the outbreak of the First World War, he engaged in a huge number of enterprises and endeavours. Praise and respect garnered in accordance with his achievements all helped to establish his reputation in later years as an 'irreplaceable' pioneer and a leading light of early British airship ... Read more

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  • Battle of Britain 1917

    The First Heavy Bomber Raids on England

    by Diane Canwell, Jonathan Sutherland ...
    In the autumn of 1916 the Germans began to equip with the Gotha twin-engine bomber. The Gothas were designed to carry out attacks across the channel against Britain. A group of four squadrons was established in Belgium, and they carried out their first bombing raid towards the end of May 1917. This 22 aircraft sortie, against the town of Folkestone, caused 95 deaths. In mid June a force of 18 ... Read more

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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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  • Heaven Lies About Us - A Fragment of Infancy

    by Howard Spring ...
    "Heaven Lies About Us" recounts Spring's childhood in Cardiff during the closing years of the 19th century. He grew up in an impoverished but loving family and left school at age 12 to support them after his father's death. The path of a writer: Spring's memoir details his humble beginnings working as an errand boy for a newspaper. This experience was his first step into the world of journalism ... Read more

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  • The Unsubstantial Air

    American Fliers in the First World War

    by Samuel Hynes ...
    The vivid account of the young Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I, told in their own words.The Unsubstantial Air is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Fighting The Flying Circus [Illustrated Edition]

    by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker ...
    Includes Aerial Warfare During World War I Illustrations Pack with 115 maps, plans, and photos.Captain Rickenbacker, originally from Ohio, was best known as one of the Commanders of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, a crack unit of pilots which included many former members of the famed Lafayette Escadrille. The 94th ended the war in France with the highest number of air victories of any ... Read more

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  • Phantom from the Cockpit

    Flying the Legend

    by Peter Caygill ...
    The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom was the outstanding aircraft in many of the Western World's air forces during the 1960s and 70s. It played a key role in the 'Cold War' and saw action in Vietnam. It first flew in 1958 and went into operation with the US Navy in 1960. During its long front-line life it flew in the roles of an interceptor, fighter-bomber and reconnaissance aircraft.Apart from ... Read more

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