Tag: RAF

Hornchurch Offensive A Definitive Account of the RAF Fighter Airfield, its Pilots, Groundcrew and Staff, 1941 – 1962


Free Download Richard C. Smith, "Hornchurch Offensive: A Definitive Account of the RAF Fighter Airfield, its Pilots, Groundcrew and Staff, 1941 – 1962"
English | 2008 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1906502153 | EPUB | 11,0 mb
A fascinating study of an airfield and its units at the forefront of the air battle for Europe. Through 1941 to the end of the war, action was continuous with famous characters like Harry Broadhurst, Paddy Finucane, Wilfred Duncan-Smith and Max Bygraves joining the myriad of nationalities based there.

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The Ruhr 1943 The RAF’s brutal fight for Germany’s industrial heartland (Air Campaign)


Free Download The Ruhr 1943: The RAF’s brutal fight for Germany’s industrial heartland (Air Campaign) by Richard Worrall, Graham Turner
English | October 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1472846567 | 96 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF’s first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany – the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler’s war machine running.

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RAF’s Centenary Flypast The Story Behind the Event that Marked 100 Years of the Royal Air Force


Free Download RAF’s Centenary Flypast: The Story Behind the Event that Marked 100 Years of the Royal Air Force by Kevin Lee Gatland
English | July 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1526788403 | 279 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
On 10 July 2018, exactly 100 years and 100 days after the formation of the world’s first independent air force, 103 aircraft of twenty-four types from twenty-five squadrons flew over London in the largest formation of military aircraft seen over the capital of the UK in nearly thirty years.

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