Name: BLACK SWAN: A HISTORY OF 103 SQUADRON
SKU: 1601731
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BLACK SWAN: A HISTORY OF 103 SQUADRON

Published by Newton. 1st. 1989

Very good condition. Glazed pictorial boards, white title to spine. 348 pages. B/w photos.

Top of spine bumped. Name and date in ink to front pastedown. SIGNED by author with dedication on front endpaper. Contents fine.

ISBN: 1872308007
Stock no. 1601731

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About the Author
Foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Constantine KBE, CB, DSO, LL.D.
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Formation of 103 Squadron in 1917, WWI in France
Chapter 2 Squadron re-formed at Andover, August 1936
Chapter 3 Return to France with AASF September 1939
Chapter 4 Squadron at Newton, converts to Wellingtons July 1940
Chapter 5 Squadron moves from Newton-Daylight on Brest
Chapter 6 Squadron moves to Elsham Wolds July 1941
Chapter 7 Squadron operational from Elsham Wolds April 1942
Chapter 8 Preparations for first thousand bomber raid
Chapter 9 Conversions to heavy bombers, Halifax II then the Lancaster, November 1942
Chapter 10 Squadron life May 1943
Chapter 11 Squadron operations September 1943
Chapter 12 Squadron operations February 1944
Chapter 13 May/June 1944 daylight operations
Chapter 14 Operations against Flying Bomb Sites August 1944
Chapter 15 Winding down February 1945
Chapter 16 Squadron disbanded November 1945
Chapter 17 Squadron Re-formed August 1954. Operations until squadron disbanded August 1975
Roll of Honour
Appendix 1 List of Abbreviations etc
Appendix 2 Arthur John Henry MkI
Appendix 3 Sqn Ldr Van Rollegan
In Retrospect
Back of the Book: List of Squadron bases, CO's and aircraft operated
Bibliography

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