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Wells, Kevin W. AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE NEW ZEALAND SPITFIRE SQUADRON - Hutchinson, New Zealand, 1984; 30 x 21cm, 168pp, f.illus (photos, sketches, maps, cartoons, 485 Squadron badge; near fine except some Hornby Workingmens Club stamps on title page. |
£35.00 | |
| Excellent description of the WW 2 history of 485 Squadron with many illus of aircraft and pilots. Lists of pilots and vg portrait sketches by Olive Snell. | ||
| BN: 31628 | ||
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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. |
£18.00 | |
| 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. | £16.00 | |
| Hutchinson 1st, 1961; 536pp, photos, maps, 3-view line drgs of aircraft types, comprehensive appendices inc lists of Battle of Britain pilots; near fine, torn d/w. | ||
| Also - card-cover edn, 1970 (with more ilus.); near-vg - £7.50; 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 | ||
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Wood, Derek TARGET ENGLAND - the illustrated history of the Battle of Britain. Jane's 1st, 1980; 27 x 22cm, 192pp, pictorial; nr fine inc d/w. |
£15.00 | |
| Preparation, the defence system, some of the aircraft and men, damage on the ground. Well illustrated. | ||
| BN: 21145 | ||
| 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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Wootton, Frank A.A. HOW TO DRAW PLANES - The Studio,1st, 1941; 17 x 14cm, 64pp, drawings; vg except sl foxing to endpapers; ragged d/w (with most of the front cover complete) |
£14.00 | |
| This little book illustrates the essence of Wootton's work. | ||
| BN: 25431 | ||
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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. | £20.00 | |
| 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 |
