Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• THE HALIFAX STORY
• Design Origins
• Prototypes
• The Halifax enters service
• New building techniques
• B Mk I Series 1 to 3 (HP57)
• B Mk II Series (HP59)
• B Mk II Series 1 (Special)
• C Mk II Series 1A
• Bomber Harris and the Halifax
• B Mk V Series 1 (Special) and Mk V Series 1A (HP63)
• B Mk III (HP61)
• B Mk IV (HP60A)
• B Mk VI (HP61)
• B Mk VII (HP61)
• Coastal Command variants
• Airborne Forces variants
• Transport variants
• ANATOMY OF THE HALIFAX
• General description
• Front fuselage
• Centre fuselage
• Rear fuselage
• Fuselage rear bay
• Mainplane
• Control surfaces
• Tail unit
• Armour plating, protection and escape hatches
• Undercarriage
• Systems
• Navigation equipment, radar and communications
• Safety and emergency equipment
• Fixed armament
• Bombs
• POWER FOR THE HALIFAX
• The Rolls-Royce Merlin
• The Bristol Hercules radial engine
• Rolls-Royce Merlin, X, XX and 22 inline liquid-cooled engines
• Bristol Hercules VI, XVI and 100 radial air-cooled engines
• HALIFAX AT WAR
• Expanding the Halifax force, 1941-42
• A new broom - 'Bomber' Harris
• Middle East adventure, 1942
• Return to operations
• No 6 (RCAF) Group
• Battle of the Ruhr
• The war at sea
• Mine-laying
• Growing might
• Battle of Berlin
• Crew conversion training
• New blood - Halifax B Mk III
• The road to France
• Supporting the invasion
• Back to Germany
• Last roll of the dice
• Coastal command operations
• Met reconnaissance
• 'Cloak and dagger'- special duties (SD) operations
• Airborne operations
• Bomber support
• Victory in Europe
• Halifaxes in the Far East
• With the Royal Pakistan Air Force at war
• HALIFAX AT PEACE
• Last throes of the RAF Halifax
• Civilian Halifaxes
• 'Milk-run' Halifaxes and other cargoes
• Operation 'Plainfare' - the Berlin Air Lift
• FLYING THE HALIFAX
• The pilot's viewpoint
• One man and his Halifax
• Equal to the task - woman in a man's job
• Halifax versus Lancaster
• Halifax flight-test report
• Comparing the Halifax with the Lancaster
• HALIFAX MAINTAINERS
• HALIFAX SURVIVORS
• Norwegian epic - by Peter Cornish
• Raising 'X for X-ray'
• Reconstructing LV907' Friday the 13th'
• Baltic bomber - Halifax B MK II (HR871)
• Last Survivor
• Cockpit remnant
• Halifax nose artwork
• The future
• APPENDIX
• LIST OF SOURCES
• INDEX