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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.
   
BN: 30552    

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
   
BN: 30287    

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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