To scale the skies : the story of Group Captain J.C. 'Johnny' Wells DFC & Bar / Peter Cornwell.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Stroud : Spellmount, 2011وصف:223 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780752463537 (pbk.)
- 0752463535 (pbk.)
- UG626.2 C67 2011
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | UG626.2 C67 2011 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011297079 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | UG626.2 C67 2011 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011297159 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; title; contents; abbreviations; introduction; 1 sheringham shannocks; 2 trenchard brat; 3 bircham newton; 4 tyro pilot; 5 middle east air force; 6 on active service; 7 target towing; 8 flying instructor; 9 spitfire pilot; 10 duxford typhoon wing; 11 frontline manston; 12 'display' leader; 13 staff wallah; 14 typhoon wing leader; 15 peacetime command; 16 raf gutersloh; 17 station commander; 18 baghdad; epilogue; appendix i aircraft flown; appendix ii no 84 group 2taf; bibliography; copyright.
With humble beginnings as an RAF apprentice, Johnny Wells progressed to pilot and rose to the higher echelons of command at the Air Ministry. From idyllic pre-war training, he would fly bombers against rebels over Iraq, combat Fw190s over England in the newly introduced and equally dangerous Typhoon; he would undertake hazardous low-level anti-shipping strikes in the English Channel, as well as train-busting sorties over occupied territory at night and close-support ground-attack operations across northern Europe following D-Day. Indeed, Wells ended the Second World War as one of the most succ