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  • RAF in Camera

    100 Years on Display

    by Keith Wilson ...
    In July 2018, the nation looked skyward over Buckingham Palace in awe as the Royal Air Force celebrated its first 100 years with a spectacular parade and flypast over London. This event demonstrated a very different perspective of the RAF; well away from its operational commitments. The expertise and precision of those RAF pilots flying in some of the most famous aircraft in the world has been ... Read more

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  • Spying on the Kremlin

    The Memoirs of an RAF Officer at home and overseas

    by Mike Murtagh ...
    Mike Murtagh's memoir traces his journey from 1950s South Wales to encounters with danger, espionage, and unique insights into the Russian psyche and military. Spying on the Kremlin details the background and unintentional turning points in what has been an eventful life. Mike Murtagh has had a gun stuck in his face, been seconds from a mid-air collision, been struck by lightning in an aircraft, ... Read more

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  • Heroes of Coastal Command

    The RAF's Maritime War 1939–1945

    by Andrew D. Bird ...
    Real-life, action-packed, personal stories of valor from the history of the RAF's maritime arm during World War II.It took thirty minutes for one Coastal Command crew to sink two U-boats. The crew of Flying Officer Kenneth "Kayo" Moore in their 224 Squadron Liberator carried out this remarkable achievement on the evening of 7/8 June 1944. While patrolling the western end of the English Channel, ... Read more

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  • Free to Fight Again

    RAF Escapes & Evasions, 1940–1945

    by Alan W. Cooper ...
    To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of local patriots and resistance workers. This book contains the amazing stories of over seventy such escapes, many first-hand accounts. It includes ... Read more

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  • Lifeline in Helmand: RAF Frontline Air Supply in Afghanistan

    1310 Flight in Action

    by Roger Annett ...
    Afghanistan is the theater where 1310 Flights role is to provide the heavy-lift support helicopter element within the British Forces Joint Helicopter Command. Its Headquarters are at Wilton because the unit reports to British Land Forces HQ, meaning that the Operational Command of its RAF personnel lies with the Army. RAF Odiham in Hampshire offers the Flight the largest fleet of Chinooks outside ... Read more

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  • Bomber Command's War Against Germany

    Planning the RAF's Bombing Offensive in WWII and its Contribution to the Allied Victory

    by An Official History ...
    "The internal RAF analysis of the different phases of the air war and what lessons could be learnt from those campaigns." —Royal Aeronautical Society websiteWhen the RAF's Bomber Command analyzed the results of their precision bombing efforts during the early years of World War II, a growing body of evidence indicated that the great "knockout" blow expected to be delivered from the air was a ... Read more

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  • How to be happy

    Enjoying expectation

    by Raf Varone ...
    One of the most powerful ways to cultivate happiness lies in a simple truth: expectation can be more joyful than reality. ... Read more

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  • Furies and Fireflies over Korea

    The Story of the Men of the Fleet Air Arm, RAF and Commonwealth Who Defended South Korea, 1950–1953

    by Graham A. Thomas ...
    The historian and author details the exploits of British and Australian pilots during the Korean War.With the outbreak of the Korean War, the UN Security Council called on its members to act and 16 nations did, with Britain sending aircraft carriers such as HMS Truimph, from which piston-engined Sea Fury fighters and Fairey Firefly fighter-bombers operated.This is the story of the British and ... Read more

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  • Dinghy Drop

    279 Squadron RAF, 1941–46

    by Tom Docherty ...
    September 1941 approval was given for the formation of two long-range Air-Sea Rescue squadrons. No 279 Squadron was formed at Bircham Newton in Norfolk. In the period leading up to the formation of the squadron there had been much work done in relation to air-dropped survival equipment such as the Lindholme Dinghy Dropping Gear, the Bircham Barrel and the Thornaby Bag. These contained such items ... Read more

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  • Lightning Up

    The Career of Air Vice-Marshal Alan White CB AFC FRAeS RAF

    by Alan White ...
    Alan White served in the RAF from 1953 to 1987 roughly the period of the Cold War. His introduction to flying came in his University Air Squadron. This seduced him into dropping out of University and joining the RAF. He initially had success during the piston-engine stages of his training but damage to a Vampire T11 and a bad start on the Hunter Weaponry Course set his confidence back until he ... Read more

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  • Devotion to a Calling

    Far-East Flying and Survival with 62 Squadron RAF

    by Joe Bamford, Harley Boxall ...
    Harley Boxall was awarded his RAF wings on 3 October 1936 and was posted to 40 Squadron flying Hawker Hinds. On 1 April 1937 he was posted to Bircham Newton in Norfolk to train with 206 Squadron which was a General Reconnaissance and Training unit equipped with the Avro Anson. He then joined 62 Squadron shortly after it was formed and received its first Blenheim in February 1938. During the summer ... Read more

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  • The First Eagles

    The Fearless American Aces Who Flew with the RAF in World War I

    by Gavin Mortimer ...
    An incredible history of the American WWI pilots who refused to be grounded, enlisting in the British Royal Air Force and fighting for Allied forces.In The First Eagles, award-winning historian Gavin Mortimer engagingly profiles the determined American aviators who grew tired of waiting for the their country to establish an aerial military force during World War I. It was these men who enlisted in ... Read more

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