| Entry Text: | SPURDLE, Bob. The Blue Arena. 249p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1986. ISBN: 0947554580.
Spurdle was a New Zealander who flew 565 operational sorties in Europe and the Pacific and became an ace in the process. He developed a virulent dislike of top brass and the USAAF. After his first 170 operations he spent ten months in MSFU in 1941–42. A very blunt, very readable memoir. Reprinted by Crecy in 1995. |
|---|