Stations Of Coastal Command

Author : David Smith
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 : 1399076574
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stations Of Coastal Command written by David Smith and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal Command, created in 1936 alongside Fighter and Bomber Commands in the reorganization of the RAF in its preparations for the coming war, was Britain’s mainstay in the battle against the German submarine. As more and more Allied merchantmen were sunk during the long voyage from North America, the Mediterranean, and points south, tracking down the U-Boats became a constant struggle against harsh weather on long-distance patrols out over the Atlantic and Bay of Biscay. To counter the threat, Coastal Command established a ring of bases stretching from Scotland and Northern Ireland to Iceland, and from south Wales and south-western Britain to Gibraltar and the Azores, all 53 of these stations are covered in this book.

Author : David Smith
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 : 1399076590
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stations Of Coastal Command written by David Smith and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal Command, created in 1936 alongside Fighter and Bomber Commands in the reorganization of the RAF in its preparations for the coming war, was Britain’s mainstay in the battle against the German submarine. As more and more Allied merchantmen were sunk during the long voyage from North America, the Mediterranean, and points south, tracking down the U-Boats became a constant struggle against harsh weather on long-distance patrols out over the Atlantic and Bay of Biscay. To counter the threat, Coastal Command established a ring of bases stretching from Scotland and Northern Ireland to Iceland, and from south Wales and south-western Britain to Gibraltar and the Azores, all 53 of these stations are covered in this book.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787200884
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coastal Command written by Anonymous and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the Air Ministry and first published in 1942, this account provides a vivid description of the RAF Coastal Command operations during World War II. A must-read of intrinsic historical value and importance for all avid readers of British Military History.

Author : Great Britain. Air Ministry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coastal Command written by Great Britain. Air Ministry and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Cuthbert Rexford-Welch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Air Force Medical Services written by Samuel Cuthbert Rexford-Welch and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sqn. Ldr. Tom Dudley-Gordon
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786257262
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Seek My Prey In The Waters: The Coastal Command At War written by Sqn. Ldr. Tom Dudley-Gordon and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE beginnings of Coastal Command are obscure. It is held by some that, in embryo, it consisted of five officers and four Bleriot monoplanes that were detached from Netheravon in August 1914 for coastal reconnaissance duties. At this time, however, there was a flourishing Naval Air Service which had its being up and down our coasts and which could properly be regarded as a coastal air force... In 1918 the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were amalgamated into the Royal Air Force. By this time there were many aircraft of all sorts employed on coast-watching, convoy protection and the attack of submarines, and very effectively they carried out their duties. After the war this coastal organization was much reduced in size, being composed of a few flying-boat squadrons and one or two torpedo-carrying units. In addition, the disembarked squadrons of the carrier-borne air force were controlled and administered by what was then known as the Coastal Area. When, however, under the menace of Hitlerism, the expansion of the Royal Air Force took place, Coastal Area, by that time renamed Coastal Command, took its share. Working in close co-operation with the Royal Navy, the Command developed the activities which are so well described in this book. Coastal Command has always been a rather independent part of the Royal Air Force. Its operations have an element of mystery about them which is a trifle aggravating to the rest of the Service. It has a jealous spirit of its own which makes its personnel, when they are posted away, hanker to come back and strive and contrive to that end unceasingly. It is immensely proud of its job and of the way it does it. In fact, it has all the attributes of a first-class team. Long may it flourish as such.

Author : Winston Ramsey
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 : 1399076353
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Coastal Radar Stations written by Winston Ramsey and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When German forces occupied the coastline of the English Channel in 1940, one of the measures undertaken to give early warning of attacks from the sea or air was to set up a line of radar stations. Although this invisible screen was a passive defense, it was a serious ‘barrier’ that had to be neutralized for the Allied invasion to be launched in 1944. Planners at RAF Medmenham had established there the Central Interpretation Unit (CIU) to examine the results of aerial photography over the Continent and the unit prepared plans of every enemy radar site ready for briefing pilots undertaking pre-invasion attacks. Those once-secret plans are now reproduced in this book, alongside the wartime photography, with comparison views of the sites today. Where farmland has now reclaimed the sites little remains to be seen, but on others there are still significant traces of a once-powerful weapon in the German armory. To set the scene, Professor R. V. Jones, the Assistant Director of Intelligence at the Air Ministry, recounts the events leading up to the proposal to mount a raid on the radar site at Bruneval. The site had what became known as a ‘Würzburg’ and the idea was to dismantle and remove the critical parts of the unit to bring then back to Britain and, hopefully, at the same time capture the operators for interrogation.

Author : Great Britain. Air Ministry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1514 pages
Book Rating : 4.9L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King's regulations and Air Council instructions for the Royal Air Force written by Great Britain. Air Ministry and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham Pitchfork
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472827260
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shot Down and in the Drink written by Graham Pitchfork and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service saved thousands of RAF, Commonwealth and Allied airmen between 1939 and 1945. This fascinating account draws on first-hand interviews, photographs and official documents to reveal some of its most dramatic missions in northwest Europe, the Mediterranean and the Far East. Those shot down at sea faced terrifying dangers, from weather extremes to enemy fighters, and rescue by airborne or seaborne craft was fraught with difficulty. These incredible stories celebrate the courage, persistence and ingenuity of the men who found themselves 'in the drink' and those who saved them.

Author : Derek Dempster
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848843143
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Narrow Margin written by Derek Dempster and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Britain saved the country from invasion. If the RAF had been defeated all the efforts of the British Army and the Royal Navy would hardly have averted defeat in the face of complete German air superiority. With all Europe subjugated, Germany and Japan would later have met on the borders of India. This remarkable book traces the varied fortunes of the Royal Air Force in the 1930s, and shows how it readied itself for the mighty German onslaught in the summer of 1940 and won a great victory by the narrowest margins. It provides a comphrensive account of the Battle of Britain, including the day-by-day summaries of the battle. It is illustrated with photographs and maps, an appendix of the aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and by the Luftwaffe with schematic drawings, also a list of all pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain from July 10 to October 31 1940. The authors are military aviation experts and The Narrow Margin has been published in translation in France and around the world. They also wrote A Summer for Heroes and Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook.