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D-Day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France - Signed
Frank 'Dutch' Holland
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Until June 1944, Frank Holland’s war had been similar to that of many of his colleagues. With 184 Squadron in the Second Tactical Air Force, he had flown a Hurricane or Spitfire against a myriad of targets, and he had always got back safely.

 

But then, on the day after D-Day, disaster struck. During a low flying attack on a marshalling yard in Normandy, he met intense opposition from German anti-aircraft fire, and his Typhoon aircraft was hit and badly damaged. Frank managed to take the aircraft up to 1200 feet but then the engine went dead and his Typhoon soon began heading towards the earth at an accelerating and frightening speed. Struggling frantically, he just barely got free of the cockpit and baled....

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The Woodhall Spa Guide - Signed
Edward Mayor
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'Woodhall Spa is unique.  Markedly different from Lincolnshire’s other beautiful villages, it seems to be on permanent holiday, and has long been known as an inland resort.  John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner remarked on the comfortable affluence of the houses and hotels which looked as though they belonged more to Bournemouth or Droitwich.  The four grand avenues leading into this Main Village are broad, floral and tree lined, and substantial remnants of a planned garden village which grew up at the side of the Spa in the 1890s are in evidence wherever you look.'

This book is a comprehensive guide to the past and present day history of the unique village of Woodhall Spa, wartime home of the Dambusters, and contains an insight into the delights which can be seen in and around the village today.

The book has been signed by the author to the title page.  

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Tales of My Time
Baxter, Raymond
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Tells a range of the author's tales, from such disparate experiences as hair-raising escapes at the controls of a Spitfire over Sicily and occupied Holland to speaking to the nation while suspended in a box near the roof of Westminster Abbey.
Big Cat Diary: The Last Year of the Jaguar with 6 Sqn RAF
John Sullivan - Wing Commander
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This book was conceived as a personal gift by the last Commanding Officer of an RAF Jaguar Squadron, to the personnel of Number 6 Squadron as a record, primarily through pictures, of their achievements in the final year of the Jaguar's service. Now available more widely, this book nevertheless remains a very personal, and thus unique, perspective on the closing of a chapter in RAF history; the retirement from service of the Jaguar after 33 years of stalwart performance on the front-line of the RAF as a ground attack fighter.

The Jaguar is a very photogenic aeroplane, with a complementary blend of business like angles and shapely curves and this book follows the Jaguar, and the personnel who supported her, through training in the UK and detachments overseas. The Jaguar was never more at home than when flying fast and low, and many of the images in this....

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Spitfire Photo Frame
Spitfire
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Display your favourite photo in this stylish hand finished pewter-effect photo frame. Supplied gift boxed.

Size: Outer Dimensions 8" x 6" to suit a 6" x 4" photo - 200 x 150mm (aperture 150 x 100mm)

Aviation Classics Issue 3 - Supermarine Spitfire
Jarrod Cotter (Ed)
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Issue three of Aviation Classics focuses on that most quintessential of British fighters, the Supermarine Spitfire.

As legendary wartime fighter ace Sir Douglas Bader said about it in his book Fight for the Sky: "I have often wondered who the genius was who christened it Spitfire. It was a name that resounded round the free world in those dark days of Hitler's tyranny, and perfectly symbolized the mood of Britain's defence."


Numerous aspects of the iconic fighter's story are depicted, including: the Supermarine racing floatplanes for which monoplane technology was advanced; the very first example of the breed; the type's arrival into RAF service; combat in the Battle of Britain; fighter sweeps to occupied France; its conversion to the photo reconnaissance role and for Naval operations; and even its part in the formation of the RAF's commemorative unit.

But of course,....

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Fifty-two Years In The Cockpit - Volume 2
Jackson, Sqn Ldr K R (Jacko)
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Tucann Books (2006) softcover (304 pages) book titled ‘Fifty Two Years in the Cockpit Volume 2', by Sqn Ldr K R (Jacko) Jackson.
Jacko's story is not only one man's recollections of a reamrkable flying career, it is also a collage of military flying over its most formative years. Inspiring, witty, sensitive and always typically understated, it is a record of an ordinary man who by dint of extraordinary effort achieved remarkable things.

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The Dambuster Who Cracked the Dam: The Story of Melvin Dinghy Young
Arthur G Thorning
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On 25 September 1939 Melvin Young reported to No.1 Initial Training Unit. He was selected as a bomber pilot and promoted to Flying Officer. Having undertaken a Lancaster conversion course Melvin and his new crew were posted to 57 Squadron at Scampton - soon to become 617 Squadron. On 15 May the Order for Operation Chastise was issued - the raid to be flown the next night, 16/17 May. The plan for the operation was that three waves of aircraft would be employed. The first wave of nine aircraft, led by Gibson, would first attack the Mohne Dam, then the Eder followed by other targets as directed by wireless from 5 Group HQ if any weapons were still available. This wave would fly in three sections of three aircraft about ten minutes apart led by Guy Gibson, Melvin Young and Henry Maudslay. At 00.43 Melvin and his crew made....

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Night & Day Bomber Offensive
Philip Kaplan
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Allied Airmen in World World II Europe

Conveys what it was like for pilots, aircrew and ground crew during WW2. This illustrated book takes the reader on typical USAAF and RAF raids, and covers the work of the mechanics and fitters as they struggled to keep battered aircraft airworthy, how the medics coped with the countless wounded who returned from the raids.

Tail-End Charlie
Mick Manning and Brita Granström
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As a boy, Mick Manning listened to his father's hair-raising tales about life as an RAF airgunner during the Second World War. Now, years later, he has carefully recreated his father's stories, writing them down as if his dad was speaking the words. In collaboration with Brita, he has illustrated them too.

It's for Charlie's grandchildren -- and for everyone. Find out what it was really like to: Put up with food rationing ! Undergo RAF Training! Take off in a bomber! Face enemy fighters! Survive the Battle of the Bulge

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