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  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Pearl Harbor 1941

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 26 - Raid
    In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese First Air Fleet launched a massive air-strike against the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Supported by a group of midget submarines, the attack gutted the American battleship fleet but, owing to a lack of intelligence, the American aircraft carriers they hoped to destroy were not present. In this new study of the raid, ... Read more

    S$ 20.81 SGD

  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Pearl Harbor 1941

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 26 - Raid
    In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese First Air Fleet launched a massive air-strike against the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.Supported by a group of midget submarines, the attack gutted the American battleship fleet but, owing to a lack of intelligence, the American aircraft carriers they hoped to destroy were not present. In this new study of the raid, ... Read more

    S$ 24.08 SGD

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    The Life of Gregory Pappy Boyington

    by Bruce Gamble ...
    Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and World War II hero Gregory Boyington.In 1936, Boyington became an aviation cadet and earned the “wings of gold” of a naval aviator. After only a short period on active duty, however, he was “encouraged” to resign from the Marine Corps due to his unconventional behavior. Remarkably, this inauspicious beginning was just the prologue to a ... Read more

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  • The Reich Intruders

    RAF Light Bomber Raids in World War II

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    "One of Britain's best-known aviation historians . . . provide[s] a moving and exciting account of the light bombers raids by No. 2 Group."—FiretrenchThis is the story of 2 Group RAF during World War II. Much of it is told by the men who flew the Blenheim, Boston, Mitchell and Mosquito aircraft that carried out many daring daylight and night-time raids on vitally important targets in Nazi occupied ... Read more

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  • The Sky My Kingdom

    Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot

    by Hanna Reitsch ...
    Translated by Lawrence Wilson ...
    Series series Vintage Aviation Library
    The memoir of the female aviator who became Hitler's favorite pilot.The Sky My Kingdom is the fascinating autobiography of the famous World War II test pilot Hanna Reitsch. As the war progressed, Reitsch was invited to fly many of Germany's latest—and increasingly desperate—designs, including the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and several larger bombers, on which she tested various ... Read more

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  • Dead Before Dawn

    A Heavy Bomber Tail-gunner in World War II

    by Frank Broome ...
    Frank Broome was a 15 year old schoolboy when he experienced the three major blitzes in his home city of Coventry and at the age of 17 volunteered for the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1942 for pilot training. This autobiography, based on his copious diary entries and log books traces his pilot training in the UK, Canada and the USA where he flew single and twin-engined aircraft. Despite ... Read more

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  • Bf 110 vs Lancaster

    1942–45

    by Robert Forczyk ...
    Series Book 51 - Duel
    The RAF introduced the Avro Lancaster in 1942 and used it to spearhead this aerial offensive. In response, the Luftwaffe created an elite nightfighter force based primarily upon the Bf 110.The Luftwaffe was quick to equip it with airborne radar that allowed it to intercept and destroy Lancasters over Germany. In turn, the RAF adopted countermeasures such as the Monica rearward-looking radar to ... Read more

    S$ 24.08 SGD

  • Spitfire Aces of North Africa and Italy

    by Andrew Thomas ...
    Series Book 98 - Aircraft of the Aces
    Essential coverage of the key part played by the iconic Spitfire in the desert campaign during 1942-43, and in the destruction of the Luftwaffe in Sicily, Italy and the Balkans from mid-1943 through to VE Day.Although most famous for their role in the Battle of Britain, many Spitfire squadrons also served in the Mediterranean theatre, aiding the Allied victories in North Africa and later in the ... Read more

    S$ 21.35 SGD

  • 3rd Air Division 8th Air Force USAF 1942-45

    Flying Fortress and Liberator Squadrons in Norfolk and Suffolk

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    Series series Bomber Bases of WW2
    A history and guide to the historic British airfields where American bombers had to be ready to go at a moment's notice—includes photos.A magnificent centuries-old house in England, Elveden Hall served as the Headquarters of the 3rd Air Division of the 8th US Army Air Force during the Second World War. Broadly speaking, it flew B17 Flying Fortresses out of Suffolk, but also included some bases in ... Read more

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  • Carrying a Nuke to Sevastopol: One Pilot, One Engine, and One Plutonium Bomb

    by Daniel Ford ...
    This story began as a study of lofting or tossing nuclear weapons, known as"LABs," for Low Altitude Bombing system. I became fascinated with the notion of using the prop-driven Skyraider for this purpose, and the story evolved into an account of what it would have been like to drive this 1940s aircraft to Sevastopol on the first day of the Third World War. "Crazy days," as one pilot called the ... Read more

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  • Life as a Battle of Britain Spitfire Pilot

    by Arthur Donahue ...
    Summer 1940, Britain is on the brink, fewer than 3,000 RAF fighter pilots stand between Hitler’s Luftwaffe and air supremacy over the skies of southern England – the prerequisite for a German invasion. What was it like to fly a Spitfire? To shoot down a German bomber over London? Or to be shot down by the closely matched Messerschmitt Me 109? This concise account of daily life in August and ... Read more

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  • The Dambuster Who Cracked the Dam

    The Story of Melvin 'Dinghy' Young

    by Arthur G. Thorning ...
    On September 25, 1939 Melvin Young reported to No. 1 Initial Training Unit. He was selected as a bomber pilot and promoted to Flying Officer. Having undertaken a Lancaster conversion course Melvin and his new crew were posted to 57 Squadron at Scampton soon to become 617 Squadron. On 15 May the Order for Operation Chastise was issued—the raid to be flown the next night, 16/17 May. The plan for the ... Read more

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