Spitfire Ace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spitfire Ace write by Martin Davidson. This book was released on 2015-10-22. Spitfire Ace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Battle of Britain, 1940, was one of the most famous air battles in the history of warfare and it is a story of ruthless organisation, brilliant control and command. But at its heart is one particular figure, a legend ever since - the RAF fighter pilot. And one particular plane - a piece of machinery that has almost mythic historical glamour - the Supermarine Spitfire. Spitfire Ace reintroduces the few that flew in the Battle of Britain and includes interviews with many of the surviving veteran Spitfire pilots. Combined with a historical narrative of the events surrounding the Battle of Britain, you will learn for the first time what it was really like to fly a Spitfire and to experience combat flying at its most visceral. Fully illustrated with 16 pages of photographs and contemporary archive material, Spitfire Ace provides a vivid portrait of the fighter boys and their finest hour, their planes (including Spitfires, Hurricanes and Messerchmitts) and Fighter Command - RAF versus the Luftwaffe.
Spitfire Aces of Burma and the Pacific
Spitfire Aces of Burma and the Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spitfire Aces of Burma and the Pacific write by Andrew Thomas. This book was released on 2013-02-20. Spitfire Aces of Burma and the Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The arrival of the Spitfire in Burma came at a crucial time as the RAF struggled against the Japanese to support the Chindit operation on the ground. Proving a huge boost to morale, the Spitfire played a large part in defeating the enemy, and covering the subsequent Allied advance through Burma, protecting the ground troops and providing vital supplies. Covering this little documented aerial war, this book tells the stories of the 54 aces who flew against the Japanese, and also those who fought in India and Australia. Full-colour artwork reveals the markings and paint schemes of this most-famous of British planes, whilst first-hand accounts and archive photographs bring the aerial battles of Burma, India and Australia to life.
Spitfire Ace of Aces
Spitfire Ace of Aces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spitfire Ace of Aces write by Dilip Sarkar. This book was released on 2011-07-15. Spitfire Ace of Aces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The biography of the RAF's top fighter pilot, Johnnie Johnson, who shot down more enemy aircraft than any other pilot during the Second World War.
Kiwi Spitfire Ace
Kiwi Spitfire Ace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kiwi Spitfire Ace write by Jack Rae. This book was released on 2001. Kiwi Spitfire Ace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forced to crash land his Spitfire in France, Jack Rae was captured and spent 20 months in prisoner of war camps. This is the tale of his attempted escapes, his forced march across Germany and his eventual release by advancing British troops.
Malta Spitfire
Malta Spitfire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Malta Spitfire write by George Beurling. This book was released on 2011-07-14. Malta Spitfire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An aviator’s true story of WWII air combat, including two dramatic weeks in the skies above the besieged island of Malta. Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta—that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis, and Reggianes as they swept eastward in their droves, screening the big Junkers with their bomb loads as they pummeled the island beneath: the most bombed patch of ground in the world. One of those Spitfire pilots was George Beurling, nicknamed “Screwball,” who in fourteen flying days destroyed twenty-seven German and Italian aircraft and damaged many more. Hailing from Canada, Beurling finally made it to Malta in the summer of 1942 after hard training and combat across the Channel. Malta Spitfire tells his story and that of the gallant Spitfire squadron, 249, which day after day ascended to the “top of the hill” to meet the enemy against overwhelming odds. With this memoir, readers experience the sensation of being in the cockpit with him, climbing to meet the planes driving in from Sicily, diving down through the fighter screen at the bombers, dodging the bullets coming out of the sun, or whipping up under the belly of an Me for a deflection shot at the engine. This is war without sentiment or romance, told in terms of human courage, skill, and heroism—a classic of WWII military aviation.
