Spitfire Pilot Illustrated Edition

Author : Flt. Lt. D. M. Crook DFC
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257499

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Spitfire Pilot [Illustrated Edition] by Flt. Lt. D. M. Crook DFC Pdf

Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 200 maps, plans, and photos. David Moore Cook, or DMC to his friends and colleagues, was one of the valiant “Few” who flew and fought against the Luftwaffe in the summer and autumn of 1940 during the Battle of Britain. A native of Huddersfield, he joined 609 (West Riding) Squadron before the war, the squadron was posted to RAF Middle Wallop in Hampshire north of the vital ports of Southampton and Portsmouth, and was tasked with protection of the English coast. In this gripping account of the combats that raged in the skies above the British mainland, DMC is very modest of his own achievements, which had led by November 1940 to 6 confirmed victories. In recognition of his sterling record he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and assigned to be a flying instructor in late 1940 to help train the pilots who would fill the depleted ranks of fighter command. Having survived the long odds of the Battle of Britain, Flight Lieutenant Crook did not survive the war, he was listed as missing in action during a routine reconnaissance mission off the coast of Scotland.

Author : Roger Hall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445609881

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Spitfire Pilot by Roger Hall Pdf

An extraordinary true story of combat in the Battle of Britain. Includes some of the most graphic and atmospheric accounts of air combat between Spitfire and Nazi Messerschmitt fighters ever published.

Author : Pilot Officer Arthur Donahue
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893400

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TALLY HO! - Yankee in a Spitfire [Illustrated Edition] by Pilot Officer Arthur Donahue Pdf

Includes 8 Illustrations of the author, his unit and the aircraft they flew. The Immortal speech of Winston Churchill to Parliament in 1940 as the Battle of Britain raged above the skies of England is well-known: "The gratitude of every home in our island, in our Empire and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen, who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” However not all of the pilots that flew in the Battle of Britain were actually British; many came from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa or nations overrun by the Nazis; Poles, Czechs. So direly needed was every pilot that a blind eye was turned on the nationality of the applicant for Fighter Command; one such man was Arthur ‘Art’ Donahue, an American hailing from the corn fields of Minnesota. Donahue was a humble and unprepossessing man, but despite his self-effacing nature his bravery in joining “The Few” during their time of greatest need is a testament to his keen sense of justice. Having been a pilot for some years before joining he was almost immediately thrown into the frontline fighting and in short order downed a BF 109, the “ratlike” Messerschmitt that hunted the skies. His luck did not hold for long in the frenzied fighting in the skies as he was shot down and badly burnt facially. Amazingly he decided after a brief recuperation to get “back in the saddle” and was flying again with 64 Squadron in the melee in the air. His recounts his experiences with wit, humility and frank honesty; a valuable historical memoir of one of the famous airmen that saved Britain, it is all the more poignant as two years later he was shot down over the English Channel and his body was never recovered. An exciting, vivid memoir of the greatest air conflict of history.

Author : Jonathan Glancey
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857895103

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Spitfire by Jonathan Glancey Pdf

Updated edition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered by a piston engine and a propeller, yet came tantalisingly close to breaking the sound barrier. First flown in 1936, the Spitfire soon came to symbolize Britain's defiance of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940. Spitfire: The Biography is a celebration of a great British invention, of the men and women who flew it and supported its development, and of the industry that manufactured both the aircraft and the Rolls-Royce engines that powered it. It is also about the ways in which the sight, sound and fury of this lithe and legendary fighter continue to stir the public imagination worldwide more than eighty years on.

Author : Arthur Gerald Donahue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1667118625

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Tally Ho! by Arthur Gerald Donahue Pdf

Tally Ho! Yankee in a Spitfire is the action-packed account of American fighter pilot Art Donahue's time flying with Great Britain's R.A.F. during the early days of World War II. Donahue describes combat patrols over the English Channel, skirmishes with Messerschmitts, dogfights galore and his ultimate crowning achievement of fighting for the British during the Battle of Britain in the summer and fall of 1940. Tally Ho! is a must-read for aviation enthusiasts, military buffs and students of World War II.

Author : David Crook
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784387495

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Spitfire Pilot by David Crook Pdf

Spitfire Pilot is the exhilarating and moving memoir of D. M. Crook, an airman in the legendary 609 Squadron - one of the most successful RAF units in the Battle of Britain. Beginning with his fond recollections of his halcyon days in training - acrobatics, night flying and languorous days spent playing sport and nights off visiting Piccadilly Circus - Crook goes on to recount in thrilling detail the dogfights, remarkable victories and tragic losses which formed the daily routine of Britain's heroic aerial defenders in that long summer of 1940. Often hopelessly outnumbered, the men of 609 Squadron in their state-of-the-art Spitfires committed acts of unimaginable bravery against the Messerschmitts and Junkers of Germany's formidable Luftwaffe. Many of Crook's fellow airmen did not make it back alive, and the absence they leave in the close-knit community of the squadron is described with great poignancy. Spitfire Pilot offers a unique and personal insight into one of the most critical moments of British history, when a handful of men stood up against the might of the German Air Force in defence of their country. This definitive edition, the first for more than sixty years, includes a new foreword by David Crook's daughter and Air Vice Marshal Sandy Hunter, Honorary Air Commodore of the 609 Squadron. The book also has an introduction by Professor Richard Overy.

Author : Dilip Sarkar
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445624570

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Spitfire Voices by Dilip Sarkar Pdf

Author : Gordon Olive
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445644370

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Spitfire Ace by Gordon Olive Pdf

The amazing story of one of ‘the Few’, Spitfire fighter pilot Gordon Olive, who shot down ten enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain.

Author : George Frederick BEURLING (and ROBERTS (Leslie)),Leslie ROBERTS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:557375810

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Malta Spitfire. The Story of a Fighter Pilot ... Illustrated by George Frederick BEURLING (and ROBERTS (Leslie)),Leslie ROBERTS Pdf

Author : Quill Jeffrey Quill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Spitfire (Fighter plane)
ISBN : 9781800351615

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Spitfire by Quill Jeffrey Quill Pdf

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Southwater Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1780190344

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The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Spitfire by Nigel Cawthorne Pdf

The history of Britain's most iconic aircraft of World War II, with more than 250 photographs.

Author : Jonathan Glancey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Spitfire (Fighter plane)
ISBN : 1843547996

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Spitfire by Jonathan Glancey Pdf

Spitfire: The Illustrated Biography is quite simply the most beautiful book of its kind. It is a soaring celebration of a great British invention, of the men and women who flew it and supported its development, and of the industry that manufactured both the aircraft and the Rolls-Royce engines that powered them.

Author : F. J. Beerling
Publisher : Fairyfaye Publications Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
ISBN : 0993384242

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WWII Spitfire Pilot at the Battle of Britain by F. J. Beerling Pdf

WWII Spitfire Pilot beautifully illustrates what life would be like for a fighter pilot during WWII. Flying Spitifres and Hurricanes, their uniform, their mission, the facts about war and even how the queen got involved. Engaging, educating and entertaining throughout, a delightful introduction to history, the book is a gentle approach to introducing the young read to history/facts through a rhyming picture book.

Author : Arthur Donahue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1700255401

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Tally-Ho! by Arthur Donahue Pdf

-'Realistic... vivid... what it is like to be under fire four miles up in the sky' NEW YORK TIMES. -First published in 1941, Arthur Donahue was forced to use pseudonyms for his fellow fighter pilots by the wartime censor, this new illustrated edition published by Spitfire Publishers in October 2019 reveals their real names for the first time. -An exceptional memoir by a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot who shot down three enemy aircraft. -Includes a newly written introduction, glossary and set of biographies of Donahue's fellow pilots and their fate written by historian Jonathan Reeve author of BATTLE OF BRITAIN VOICES ('A valuable contribution' BBC WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE MAGAZINE). Based on diaries written between sorties during the Battle of Britain, American 'Art' Donahue's fighter pilot memoir is an outstanding true story. In June 1940 he was living on his parents' dairy farm in rural Minnesota. Already a trained pilot, he heard the RAF needed pilots and believing the war against Nazism was also America's fight, he travelled to England risking jail and the loss of his citizenship for breaking US neutrality laws. By the end of July he was flying Spitfires with 64 Squadron in the skies over South East England - the white heat of the Battle of Britain. Art endured a relentless summer and autumn of dawn patrols. He survived dogfights and the harrowing experience of being shot out of the sky by a Messerschmitt 109 - canon shells and machine-gun rounds hammering the back of his armour-plated seat. He would personally account for three enemy aircraft destroyed.ABOUT THE AUTHORArthur 'Art' Donahue was born in St Charles, Minnesota on 29 January 1913. Fascinated by flying from an early age he gained his pilot's license at 19. In 1940 he heard that pilots were being enlisted in Canada for the RAF. He travelled to Canada and, claiming to be Canadian, was accepted and ten days later sailed for Great Britain. Six days after landing he was in England on an accelerated RAF training scheme for urgently needed pilots to replace those being lost in the early stages of the Battle of Britain. He joined 64 Squadron on 3 August 1940 flying Spitfires. Art was now part of a very small band of Americans who ignored their country's neutral status to join the fight against Hitler in the Battle of Britain. He wrote up TALLY-HO! in the early summer of 1941 and it was published in America in August 1941. A British edition followed in 1942. Art was killed in action on 11 September 1942 attempting to intercept a Junkers Ju 88 off Ostend. His Spitfire was hit by return fire and he ditched in the Channel. His body was never recovered, he was 29.PRAISE FOR TALLY-HO!'Realistic... vivid... what it is like to be under fire four miles up in the sky' NEW YORK TIMES'A thrilling firsthand account' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'At last a Spitfire pilot's own story... a thrilling story' THE SUNDAY MIRROR'Delightfully told' THE OBSERVER'A record of historical value... an absorbing story' THE BIRMINGHAM POSTABOUT THE EDITORJonathan Reeve has been a history book publisher for twenty years and has been responsible for publishing several memoirs by Battle of Britain fighter pilots including SCRAMBLE! by Tom Neil ('Enthralling' THE DAILY MAIL), SPITFIRE PILOT by Roger Hall ('No-one has written more vividly about air combat' THE SUNDAY TIMES) and SPITFIRE ACE by Gordon Olive ('Ever wonder what it was like to fly a Spitfire in the Battle of Britain? No account captures it quite so nerve shreddingly as this new book by a hero who flew 193 sorties' THE DAILY MAIL). He is also the editor of BATTLE OF BRITAIN VOICES ('A valuable contribution' BBC WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE MAGAZINE).

Author : Robert Bracken
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Spitfire (Fighter plane)
ISBN : 1550461486

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Spitfire by Robert Bracken Pdf

Read the stories told by the Canadians who flew or serviced the most famous fighter aircraft of World War II -- the Spitfire. Forty stunning color profiles of the most famous of the Canadian Spitfires by well-known aviation artist Ron Lowry complete the best Canadian aviation book published in years.