Author: NESBIT, ROY CONYERS
Title: Strike wings : special anti-shipping squadrons, (1942-45) / Roy Conyers Nesbit
Description: London : HMSO 1995. Second Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Edition; 2nd impression. Physical description; 288 p. : ill. ports. ; 25 cm. Notes; Originally published: 1984. Contents; Historical background; courage is not enough; rocket projectile; the Good Shepherd; blockade; runner; D-Day destroyers; combined attack; second squirt; sailor's grave; crash call; Mosquitoes and Tsetses; black Friday; retribution; the reckoning. Appendices: main locations of the Strike Wings; Kriegsmarine Vessels attacked by the Strike Wings; vessels sunk or damaged by the Strike Wings. Summary; In 1942 the RAF began to form special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended and seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germany's vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a series of air/sea battles at close quarters. fought with increasing ferocity until the last days of the war. The author. himself a survivor of strike aircraft of Coastal Command. has researched these little-known and complex battles from British and German records. assisted by first-hand accounts from some of the brave and distinguished airmen who flew in the attacks. He has also analyzed the effects of the tactics employed on the German war economy. with some startling conclusions. The result is a vivid history of events that were little publicized during the war for reasons of security. There are detailed diagrams of some of the attacks. as well as photographs taken in action. Subjects; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Coastal Command - History. World War. (1939-1945) - Aerial operations. British. British & Irish history: Second World War ; Military history ; Battles & campaigns ; World history: Second World War ; Air forces & warfare ; War & defence operations. United Kingdom. Great Britain ; Germany. Second World War. (1939-1945). History / Military / Aviation. Genre; Illustrated. ISBN: 0117726877. Weight in Kg appr.:

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