| Weeks, John THE AIRBORNE SOLDIER - | £13.50 | |
| Blandford Press 1st, 1982; 25 x 19cm, 192pp, f.illus; near fine inc d/w Parchute, glider and airlifted forces in and after WW 2. |
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| BN: 30552 | ||
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Wells, Ken STEEPLE MORDEN STRAFERS - 1943-45. Egon 1st, 1994; 27 x 21cm, 174pp, f.illus, fold-out site plan, pilots' roster; fine inc d/w. |
£20.00 | |
| Illustrates pilots & other personnel, the airfield, work & social life etc; some contemporary colour. | ||
| BN: 28051 | ||
| Wellum, Geoffrey FIRST LIGHT - |
£15.00 | |
| Viking 1st, 2002; 338pp, 39 photos; fine inc d/w. Trained in 1939, flew with 92 Sqdn through the Battle of Britain; graphic descriptions of conflict. Also - card-cover edn; fine - £5 |
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| BN: 30287 | ||
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Whelan, Russell THE FLYING TIGERS - Macdonald 1st, c1942; 136pp; vg.,(fine int). |
£14.00 | |
| Story of the US Flying Tigers in China, 1941 - 1942. | ||
| BN: 20893 | ||
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White W.L. QUEENS DIE PROUDLY - H.Hamilton 1943 reprinted 1st; 19 x 13cm, 227pp; vg, torn remains of d/w. |
£14.00 | |
| Stories of the individual crew members of the "Swoose"; (last surviving B-17 out of 12 that remained in the Philippines after the others in their original group of 35 were destroyed in the Japanese advance). | ||
| BN: 25198 | ||
| Willis, John CHURCHILL'S FEW - The Battle of Britain Remembered. | £15.00 | |
| Joseph 1st, 1985; 258pp, 22 photos; fine, good d/w.Spotlights the lives of Geoffrey Page, Cyril Bamberger, Bob Doe, Joseph Szlagowski, Geoffrey Myers & Ulrich Steinhilper. | ||
| BN: 24790 | ||
| Willmott H.P. B-17 FLYING FORTRESS - | £7.50 | |
| Bison Books/A & A.P. 1st, 1980; 29 x 23cm, 64pp, f.illus (some col); fine inc d/w.Also - 1988 reprint (different d/w picture); fine inc d/w - £7.50. | ||
| BN: 28894 | ||
| Wilson, Sergeant A.J. SKY SWEEPERS - | £8.00 | |
| Jarrolds 1st, (2nd Imp), c1941; 19 x 13cm, 128pp, 10 photos, lists of awards; good (spine faded), .Fighter & night bomber ops of early WW 2. | ||
| BN: 23796 | ||
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Wilson, Kevin BOMBER BOYS - The RAF Offensive of 1943. |
£20.00 | |
| Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1st, 2005; 479pp, 37 photos; fine inc d/w. Detailed description with many anecdotes. | ||
| BN: 30783 | ||
| Winchester, Barry EIGHTY FOUR DAYS - A rhyming appreciation & comment on the Battle of Britain. | £12.50 | |
| Privately published, 1974; 176pp plus appendices; near fine, vg d/w.The HMSO 1940 booklet "The Battle of Britain" is reproduced at the rear as an appendix. | ||
| BN: 25429 | ||
| Winslow T.E. FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED - a history of the Royal Observer Corps. | £16.00 | |
| Hodge 1st, 1948; 290pp, 33 illus, lists of honours & awards & of officers at stand-down; Near fine (no d/w).The authorised history, through both world wars & the period between. | ||
| BN: 22447 | ||
| Wood D. & Dempster D. THE NARROW MARGIN - The battle of Britain and the rise of air power 1930-1940. | £9.50 | |
| card-cover edn, 1970 (with more ilus.); nr fine - Also - Tri-Service Press edn, 1990; 28 x 21cm, 384pp, better illustrations; Inscribed to "Raymond" (from Raymond Baxter's Collection); fine, vg d/w - £45 | ||
| BN: 24339 | ||
| Wood, Alan HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S GLIDER FORCES - | £16.00 | |
| PSL 1st, 1990; 312pp, 57 photos, diags, maps, drgs & details of glider types; fine inc d/w.Mostly WW 2. | ||
| BN: 28437 | ||
| Woods, Gerard A. WINGS AT SEA - A Fleet Air Arm Observer's War, 1940-45. | £15.00 | |
| Conway 1st, 1985; 272pp, photos in text, glossary, aircraft type details; nr fine inc d/w. FAA/Carrier memoirs. | ||
| BN: 23801 | ||
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Wordell, Lt M.T. & Lt E.N. Seiler (as told to Keith Ayling) "WILDCATS" OVER CASABLANCA - Little, Brown USA, 1943; 309pp, ep maps; vg int, spine sl faded. |
£15.00 | |
| Story of fighting squadrons operating from a U.S. carrier during the invasion of North Africa. | ||
| BN: 31318 | ||
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Wright, Stuart J. AN EMOTIONAL GAUNTLET - from life in peacetime America to the war in European skies. |
£16.00 | |
| Pen & Sword, 2004; 334pp, f.illus; notes, glossary & biblio; fine inc d/w. The trials and tribulations of the American daylight bombers - mentioning many of their British bases. | ||
| BN: 30955 | ||
| Wynn, Humphrey DESERT EAGLES - | £12.00 | |
| Airlife 1st, 1993; 140pp, 23 photos, maps; fine inc d/w.Story of two American P-40 pilots flying Kittyhawks in the Eagle Squadrons (Hal Marting & Ed Miluck) in the desert air force in 1942 | ||
| BN: 26963 | ||
| Zijlstra, Gerrit DIARY OF AN AIR WAR - Allied flights over Fortress Europe in WW 2. | £25.00 | |
| Vantage Press USA, 1977; 487pp, many photos in text, biblio; fine inc d/w.The day-to-day U S air operations, from data collected post-war by the author, who was during the war a Dutch teen-age witness to much that passed overhead. | ||
| BN: 25435 |