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What the RAF Airman Took to War

By: Osprey

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: General Military - World War I

Last Stocked on 7/15/2022

Product Info

Title
What the RAF Airman Took to War
Publisher
Category
Author
Bill Howard
Publish Year
2015
Dimensions
5x5x.5"
NKG Part #
2147583178
MFG. Part #
OSPGM205
Type
Hardcover

Description

Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler’s Luftwaffe in the skies above England. Many lost their lives in this hard-fought episode and in the four years of air campaigns that followed. As Prime Minister Winston Churchill put it, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” In this beautifully illustrated tribute to “The Few,” Bill Howard catalogs the objects upon which every wartime pilot depended, from the superstitious good-luck charm to the parachute on which his life may depend, and other poignant items relating to the air war.