Bomber pilot group

Buy Bomber Pilot - Group Captain Leonard Cheshire - Book loose from cover for R75.00

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 13 working days Find out how a pilot was instructed in flying a four-engined heavy bomber using the original Pilot's Notes for the Avro Lancaster, Handley Page Halifax and Short Stirling. See how they compare, view their cockpits, learn how they flew. Using manuals produced during the war, the Pilot's Note's were aimed at the pilots who flew the aircraft on missions deep inside enemy territory. Everything was included, from bomb jettisoning to flying on two engines. Features Summary How do you fly a Lancaster, or a Halifax or even a Stirling? Using original Pilot's Notes, Louis Archard introduces you to the famous aircraft of the Bomber Offensive. Author Louis Archard Publisher Amberley Publishing Release date Pages 192 ISBN ISBN

Buy The Berlin Raids R. A. F. Bomber Command (Signed by the Author and also a WWII B-17 Pilot) for R750.00

This is the first book to be written about a group of remarkable men who left the wealth and comfort of America before the Second World War to volunteer for the most dangerous trade in the world. Few people know there were any Americans flying with RAF Bomber Command. The book follows the life stories and flying careers of 21 Americans who fought in the air war over Europe with the RAF’s two premier Bomber Command squadrons – 9 and 617. Of these men of free will, 15 were killed in action. No Need To Die is a revelation, an untold human story from the Second World War.

  Air Commodore   Alan Christopher "Al" Deere,  DSO,  OBE,  DFC & Bar  (12 December 1917 – 21 September 1995), was a New Zealand  Spitfire  pilot in the  Battle of Britain  and author of  Nine Lives. (Wikipedia)   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1959. 1st edition. Hard Cover with price-clipped Dust Jacket. Good+/Good+ 8vo, Pp262, Idx, Illust, b/w plates. Age-related yellowing and foxing. Classic autobiography and one of the First Written by one of 'The Few' of a WWII Battle Of Britain Fighter pilot. 

The art of successful night fighting was not something that could be easily learnt. Pilot and navigator had to work together as a team, to think and move as one man. Lewis Brandon, a navigator throughout WW2, recounts his experiences.

Subtitle: Reminiscences of a Crowded Life Author: Cecil Margo Publisher: Jonathan Ball () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 298 Dimensions: 15.4 x 23.2 x 2 cm +++ by Cecil Margo +++ The biography of the late Mr Justice Cecil Margo, judge of the Supreme (High) Court of South Africa, and a world-renowned aviation expert. He chaired many commissions of enquiry into aeroplane disasters, including the crash of the Helderberg and the aircraft carrying the late Samora Machel, president of Mozambique. A much-decorated bomber pilot, he joined the Bar after the war, and was appointed to the bench in .   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

  A Crowd Is Not A Company by Robert Key   'The journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee was an RAF bomber pilot in the war, was shot down, captur ed and spent three years and three months in a German POW camp. After several false starts Kee successfully escaped. In compelling detail, he describes his desperate journey across Poland, a journey that meant running the gauntlet of Nazism. Written like a novel, and indeed published as such in 1947 to wide acclaim, this book is in fact an autobiography and 'arguably the best POW book ever written' The Times. Softcover published 2000, 240 pages. Postnet to Postnet R110.00          

2010 edition. Hard cover with dust cover. 224 pages. Very good condition; as new. Over 1kg. Aviation historian Norman Franks updates his classic book, The Lancaster, with new information and photos. The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine heavy bomber that played a crucial role in World War II, and this illustrated volume records the history of thirty-five of them, supported by stories from aircrew members.   The most famous of the bombers is “Queenie” (W5868), the only one of these Lancasters that survives, now in the Bomber Command Hall at the Royal Air Force Museum in London. Ton-Up Lancs delves into some of the controversies surrounding Queenie and other Lancasters, and also includes detailed listings of each raid these thirty-five Lancasters flew during from 1942 through 1945, together with the names of the pilot and crew that took them on sorties all over Hitler’s Third Reich and Northern Italy, on support missions before and after D-Day in June 1944, and attacks on V1 rocket launch sites situated in Northern France. The book also offers a view from one of the Lancaster’s former skippers on what it was like to fly a bomber tour of operations in Bomber Command.

Ronnie Selley, a South African from rural Natal, joined the RAF on a short-service commission in 1937, considered the Golden Age of aviation. During these glory years of Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart few guessed at the brewing storm and dark days to come. After completing his training on antiquated First World War aircraft, Selley was posted to 220 Squadron Coastal Command, the RAF’s under-staffed and under-equipped poor relation to the more prestigious Fighter and Bomber Commands. Tasked with reconnaissance, convoy patrols and submarine-hunting the pilots of Coastal Command chalked up more flying hours than any other RAF Command. It was not uncommon for pilots to be in the air, searching the waters of the North Atlantic, for up to sixteen hours a day, in aircraft that were neither capable of such ranges nor, initially, adequately armed to defend their charges. From the outbreak of war until after its cessation Coastal Command had aircraft in the air twenty-four hours a day, every single day. The toll this took on the men of Coastal Command was unthinkable. The first RAF pilot to sink a German U-boat, Selley went on the win the DFC for his actions during the Dunkirk evacuation. He won high praise and newspaper headlines such as “Plane fights 13 German warships”, “One RAF man bombs 3 ships, routs Nazis” and “One against eight” were not uncommon. Selley subsequently suffered acute battle fatigue and spent time convalescing at the Dunblane Hydro. Thereafter, he was posted by the Air Ministry as Air Vice-Marshal Breese’s personal pilot. On 5 March 1941 Ronnie Selley, Air Vice-Marshal Breese and the entire crew of the fully armed Lockheed Hudson they was flying experienced engine problems, lost speed, stalled and exploded on impact at Wick in northern Scotland. Paperback, 224 pages.

When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in , his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew. Ordered into a suicide mission, their only chance for survival is to band together as brothers in battle. With unparalleled aerial action, Fortress pays homage to the sacrifices of an entire generation during the most important war in history.

 142 PAGE HARDCOVER BOOK - MINOR CELLOTAPE REPAIRS TO DUSWRAPPER, NAME & SIGNATURE ON INSIDE OF FRONT COVER AND FIRST INSIDE PAGE. THE BOOK IS IN A GOOD CONDITION - SEE PICS ABOVE                                                      FIGHTER PILOT, RAF, JOHNNY JOHNSON  COBBER KAIN, PADDY FINUCANE, BOMBER V.C. ROBER PALMER, AIR WARFARE, 

Military Aviation print of a Curtiss P-40 as used in WW2 by Pilot Robert T Smith of American Volunteer Group in China  size - 44.5cm x 31cm  

1997 paperback with 230 pages in very good condition. R50 postage in SA. Into the Teeth of the Tiger provides a vivid, pilot’s-eye view of one of the most extended projections of American air power in World War II Asia. Lopez chronicles every aspect of fighter combat in that theater: harrowing aerial battles, interludes of boredom and inactivity, instances of courage and cowardice. Describing different pilots’ roles in each type of mission, the operation of the P-40, and the use of various weapons, he tells how he and his fellow pilots faced not only constant danger but also the munitions shortages, poor food, and rat-infested barracks of a remote sector of the war. The author also offers keen observations of wartime China, from the brutalities of the Japanese occupation to the conflict between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and the Communist movement. This edition of Lopez's acclaimed account features new photographs, most of which have never before been published. Relating how the 23rd Fighter Group continued to win battles even as the Japanese gained ground, Into the Teeth of the Tiger is the humorous and insightful memoir of an ace pilot caught in the paradox of victory in retreat.

Subtitle: History, Destiny, Conspiracy   Author: Kerry Jamieson  Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good - Cover edges have some wear Binding: Softcover Pages: 346 Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm +++ by Kerry Jamieson +++ A novel set around the life of Charles Lindbergh, the first lone pilot to cross the Atlantic.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.