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WINGS OF THE MORNING: THE STORY OF THE FLEET AIR ARM IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Written by Ian Cameron
Published by White Lion Publishers Limited in 1972
ISBN: 0856176850

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WINGS OF THE MORNING: THE STORY OF THE FLEET AIR ARM IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Ian Cameron.
Stock no. 1829884
1st thus. 1972. Hardback. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of the men who joined the Fleet Air Arm and their triumph in the Second World War. Originally published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1962. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 288 pages including index. ISBN: 0856176850. A lovely copy, appears unread. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, slightly faded to spine.

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Cover of WINGS OF THE MORNING: THE STORY OF THE FLEET AIR ARM IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Ian Cameron

Contents

  • Chapter
  • 1. THE YEARS OF THE LOCUST
  • The Fleet Air Arm between the Wars
  • 2. AN ALIEN SHORE
  • Operations off Norway
  • 3. A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
  • Taranto
  • 4. THE OTHER END OF THE STICK
  • Fliegerkorps X and the divebombing of HMS Illustrious
  • 5. "THE CONVOY MUST GO THROUGH"
  • Convoy "Tiger", Gibraltar to Alexandria, May 1941
  • 6. THE END OF AN ERA
  • The Sinking of the Bismarck
  • 7. "EL ALAMEIN WAS WON ON THE AIRFIELDS OF MALTA"
  • The night attacks on Rommel's supply lines
  • 8. THE FIRST OF THE PATHFINDERS
  • Night operations in the Western Desert
  • 9. "WHY?"
  • The escape up-Channel of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
  • 10. THE HEART OF THE STORM
  • The Battle of the Atlantic
  • (1) THE DEFENSIVE
  • HMS Audacity and convoy HG76
  • (2) THE TURNING OF THE TIDE
  • HMS Archer and convoy HX239
  • (3) THE OFFENSIVE
  • HMS Vindex and the hunter/killer searches of spring 1944
  • 11. THE LAST OF THE DINOSAURS
  • The Barracuda attack on the Tirpitz
  • 12. THE RUN TO KOLA BAY
  • Convoys JW and RA64 - UK to Russia and Return
  • 13. THE SETTING OF THE RISING SUN
  • The attack on the oil refineries at Palembang
  • 14. THE WINDS OF HEAVEN
  • The Kamikaze suicide attacks and the neutralising of the Nasei Shoto airstrips
  • 15. "ENVOI"
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Index