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| 1542 | BRAND, Stanley. Achtung! Swordfish! Merchant Aircraft Carriers. 220p., illus. Leeds: AMS Educational, 2009. ISBN: 1860298052. An autobiographical account of life as a Swordfish pilot on MAC ships. His war was full of danger if not action. |
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| 1543 | BROWN, David. Carrier Air Groups: HMS Eagle (Volume 1). 84p., illus., index. Windsor: Hylton Lacy, 1972. ISBN: 0850641039.
The only volume to appear in this projected series is a well-illustrated description of 800, 826, 849, and 899 Squadrons and a description of the two carriers which bore the name Eagle. |
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| 1544 | BROWN, David. Carrier Fighters 1939–1945 (Macdonald Illustrated War Studies). 160p., illus. London: Macdonald & Jane's, 1975. ISBN: 0356080951.
A mainly operational history relying heavily on illustrations of British and US experience. |
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| 1545 | BROWN, David. The Seafire. 208p., illus., index. London: Ian Allan, 1973. ISBN: 0711003432.
An excellent history of the development and career of this naval version of the Spitfire, which served from 1941–1954 with great success. A new edition, subtitled The Spitfire that Went to Sea, was published by Greenhill in 1989. |
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| 1546 | BROWN, Eric. Wings of the Navy: Flying Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War II. 176p., illus. London: Jane's, 1980. ISBN: 071060002X.
The author was at one time Chief Naval Test Pilot at Farnborough. Descriptions of the aircrafts' handling characteristics and war history are enriched by tales of his experiences. There is one chapter on each class of aircraft, most of which were published as individual features in Air International. Reprinted by Airlife in 1987, ISBN: 0906393876 . |
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| 1547 | BROWN, Eric. Wings on My Sleeve. 191p., illus. London: Barker; Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1961.
The author's autobiography. The first third covers his wartime career. He joined the Fleet Air Arm, and after service in Audacity became a test pilot in 1942. Reprinted in 1978. A fully revised edition was published in 2006 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN: 0297845659. |
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| 1548 | BUCKLE, Norman. I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II. 90p., [n.p.], C. Murray, 2012. ISBN: 9781519046123. This short, annotated diary, edited by his daughter, records his extraordinary experiences and the on-going banalities of everyday life on a naval air-base in Sierra Leone.. |
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| 1549 | BURNS, Michael G. Bader: The Man and His Men. 322p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour, 1990. ISBN: 1854090623.
A review of Bader's career which also follows the exploits of those who flew with him. There are excellent accounts of the FAA pilots who flew with him in the Battle of Britain and of the subsequent careers of "Jimmy" Gardner and Richard Cork, the leading FAA ace. |
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| 1550 | CAMERON, Ian. Wings of the Morning: The Story of the Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War. 288p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1962; New York: Morrow, 1963. A good account of the major wartime actions of the service. Reprinted by White Lion in 1972 (ISBN: 0856176850). |
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| 1551 | CHEVALLIER, Fielding. Something for Nothing: The Story of the Adventures of an English Sailor in America and Canada. 64p. London: Vallancey, 1944.
Describes a 10-day leave spent in Toronto and Iowa after flying training in Kingston, Ontario. |
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| 1552 | CLIFFORD, Alan. Rating Pilot RN 1912-1953. 80p., illus. [n.p.]: author, 2000.
Opens up a little known area with a brief account of RN policy and history on ratings and makes an attempt to list all such pilots. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2009. (ISBN: 0956252400). |
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| 1553 | COLE, David. John Moore: True Countryman. xii, 244p., bibliog., illus. Pershore: Blacksmith, 2007. ISBN: 9780954358518.
Moore joined the FAA on the outbreak of war. After a series of illnesses and accidents he was grounded and joined the Admiralty Press Unit. He became a well-known writer about the rural scene after the war. |
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| 1554 | COOPER, Geoffrey. Farnborough and the Fleet Arm. 296p., bibliog., illus. Hersham: Midland, 2008. ISBN: 185780306X.
A relentlessly technical but fascinating account of the work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment and of the development work of the Catapult Section in particular. |
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| 1555 | COOPER-EVANS, Michael. Rob Walker. 272p., illus., index. Richmond: Hazelton Publishing, 1993. ISBN: 1874557357.
With a private income derived from Walker's whisky, Rob Walker led a life of gilded youth and was already well-known in motor racing circles before the war. It is his love of motor racing that is the main theme of this biography. He volunteered for the FAA in December 1939 and his training and various scrapes and escapades are recalled with relish. In 1941 he was posted to the Middle East and flew from Dekheila in support of Tobruk in most operational types. Next came a variety of postings which are fitfully described, towing drogue targets for the RN at Haifa, as FDO on the cruiser Cleopatra until her sinking and as Hangar Control Officer on the carrier Victorious. He served with her in the Far East until war's end. |
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| 1556 | COSTLEY, John. Upside Down in the Dark. [iv],108p., illus. Adelaide: Digital Print Australia, 2011.
He joined the FAA in mid-1940 and trained in the UK and Canada and in mid-1942 was posted to Egypt flying Albacores in the desert.. At the end of the year he moved with 821 Squadron to Malta. After eighteen months he returned to the UK and a bout of poor health, but in mid-1944 began to work up with 814 Squadron Barracudas. They sailed in Venerable to join the BPF arriving as war ended. |
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| 1557 | COTTRELL, John. Laurence Olivier. 433p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New York: Prentice-Hall, 1975. ISBN: 0297769839.
Includes an interesting chapter on his nonoperational service career in the FAA. |
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| 1558 | CROSLEY, R. Mike. They Gave Me a Seafire. 271p., illus., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1986. ISBN: 0906393566.
Crosley joined the FAA in 1940 and became a fighter pilot. After training he joined Eagle and spent a period in the Mediterranean where he was sunk in her during the Pedestal convoy. He joined Biter for Torch and Dasher for JW53. Time in training squadrons was followed by spotting for naval gunfire at the Normandy landings. He joined Furious as CO of 880 squadron, with the Home Fleet. In September 1944 they joined Implacable and in March 1945 sailed for the Far East and the final assault on Japan. A long but enjoyable memoir. |
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| 1559 | CULL, Brian. Flying Sailors at War: September 1939-June 1940. Volume 1. 192p. Stamford: Dalrymple & Verdun, 2009. ISBN: 1905414145.
An in-depth account of FAA crew experiences during World War II, with information taken from official records, memoirs and interviews. This volume covers operations in Northern Europe, Norway, the North Sea and the North and South Atlantic. |
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| 1560 | DARLING, Kev. Fleet Air Arm Carrier War: the History of British Naval Aviation. 352p., bibliog., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2009. ISBN: 1844159035.
The story of British naval flying from aircraft carriers, from its conception in World War One to date. It includes the types of aircraft and the men who flew them, the carriers and their design evolution, the theatres where they served and their notable achievements and tragedies |
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| 1561 | DARLING, Kev. Supermarine Seafire. Ramsbury: Crowood, 2008. 174p., bibliog., illus., index. ISBN: 1861269900.
The Seafire was an aircraft adapted initially in haste to fill a large gap in the Fleet Air Arm's fighter inventory. The first Seafires were developed from the early marks of Spitfire, but although the structure was strengthened to absorb some of the landing loads characteristic of carrier operation, the airframe would exhibit some alarming failures; a trait that continued through the life of the type. |
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