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Action Stations Revisited. The complete history of Britain's military airfields. Volume 4: South West England

Door David Berryman

Categorie
Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer
#220724
Titel
Action Stations Revisited. The complete history of Britain's military airfields. Volume 4: South West England
Auteur
Berryman, David
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Crecy Publishing Limited, Manchester
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
0859791211
ISBN13
9780859791212
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

Military airfields of South West England are the focus of the latest volume of the Action Stations Revisited series. The area covered includes most of the counties of Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Wiltshire, along with those of Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, and the Channel Islands. The whole of British aviation history is reflected here from the birth of military aviation at Larkhill, flying training at Old Sarum during the World War I and at Upavon during the 1930s, to fighter operations from Charmy Down during the World War II. Postwar developments at Filton and Boscombe Down are supplemented by recent activities at Culdrose, St. Mawgan, Yeovilton, and Lyneham. Accounts of the construction and operational use of the stations, with the aircraft types flown and
... (Lees verder) units involved are illustrated by a wealth of photographs, many of them previously unpublished.
Pagina's
368
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 20,00

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