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Airforce8314. : Second Report of the U.S. Army Air Forces to the Secretary of War Feb. 27th 1945. H.M.S.O. 1945. 23 by 18 cms. 96 pp. illustrated, paper covers. The covers are fairly dusty but generally this is in good condition, interesting photographs. £7.007475. : Target: Germany. The U.S. Army Air Forces' Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command's First Year over Europe. London: H.M.S.O. 1944. (British Edition) 119 pp. illustrated, paper covers, very good. £8.003486. : Air Reserve Gazette. Vol 1 no 5. Oct. 1946. 25 by 18.5 cms. 35 pp. illustrations, paper covers, in good condition. £2.004904. : Cadets Manual Stanmore, Middlesex: Air Training Corps, 1941 c60pp, 24.5 x 15 cms. ATCP 60, 1st edition. Various instruction sheets tied into card covers, in good condition. Issued to Cadet Alfred Montgomery of Belfast, 30.01.43. £5.003333. : Fighter Pilot A Personal Record of the Campaign in France Sept 8th, 1939 to June 13th, 1940. London: Batsford Sept. 1941. vi+122 pp. illustrated with photographs. Spine and top front sun faded otherwise v.g. The author was an unnamed Flight Lieutenant in the RAF and this is a selected account from his personal notebooks. £10.003489. : R.A.F. Parade - A War Record of Achievement. London and Watford: The Sun Engraving Co. Ltd, c1940. 64pp, 21 x 13.5. cms. "Over 100 photographic illustrations." Paper covers, good. £5.0010419. Air Ministry: Sea Survival Air Ministry Pamphlet 224. London: reprinted June 1952. 13.5 by 10.5 cms. 37 pp. illustrated, some wear, good. £10.005463. Bowyer, Chaz: Coastal Command at War. London: Ian Allan 1979. 30 by 22 cms. 159 pp. illustrated with contemporary photographs, very good in dustwrapper. A bright fresh copy. £15.006391. Boyd, J.S: Behind a Surgeon's Mask. Privately printed, no details. c.1990. 230 pp. illustrated, paperback. Born on a farm in Carnmoney, trained at Queens, and at RVH, wartime service in the RAF. Retired in 1982 after 30 years service in Downe Hospital Downpatrick. The memoirs of a local surgeon. £10.004908. Boyle, Andrew: No Passing Glory - The Full and Authenic Biography of Group Captain Cheshire VC, DSO, DFC. London: Collins, 1955 Second impression. 384 pp. 21.5 x 14 cms. Dusty, in sunned dw. £5.004909. Brickhill, Paul: Reach for the Sky - The Story of Douglas Bader, DSO, DFC. London: Collins, 1956 Eleventh impression. 384 pp. 21.5 x 14 cms. 21 illustrations. In sunned dw. £5.0010037. Charlton: Charlton. London: Faber and Faber 1931. 311 pp. illustrated, hardback, no dustwrapper, in very good condition. A military career with much information on the Boer and First World Wars, also the early years of the Royal Flying Corps. £8.509190. Clostermann, Pierre.: The Big Show Some Experiences of a French Fighter Pilot in the R.A.F. London: Chatto and Windus first edition 1951. 256 pp. illustrated, a little dusty, some fore edge spotting, good in a dustwrapper with some edge wear to top and bottom of d.w. spine. A classic story of a great wartime fighting ace. £10.003481. Cotterell, Anthony: Roof over Britain. HMSO 1st.ed. 1943 20.5 by 13 cms. 88 pp. illustrations, paper covers, in good condition. The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942. £5.003537. Ethell, J and Price, A: One Day in a Long War - May 10, 1972, Air War, North Vietnam. London: Guild Publishing, 1990. xviii + 217 + i pp, 24 x 16cms, illustrated. Mint, in dw. £10.009171. Fellowes, Air Commodore P.F.M.: Britain's Wonderful Air Force. London: Odhams Press n.d. c.1941. 320 pp. illustrated, embossed dark red boards, pictorial endpapers, in good condition. Published after Mar. 1940 but before the fall of France, this is an excellent well illustrated study of the Airforce at this early stage of the war. £8.001360. Glubb, Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot (Glubb Pasha): War in the Desert An R.A.F. Frontier Campaign. London: Hodder and Stoughton first edition 1960. 352 pp. illustrated, maps, the dustwrapper is a little edgeworn and rubbed at the top, otherwise the book is overall very good. A little known chapter in the history of the RAF. £18.003570. Green, W. and Swanborough, G. editors: Air Enthusiast 28. Pilot Press, July-Oct. 1985. 28 by 21 cms. 80pp. illustrated. in depth features on aircraft of the near or distant past with photos, drawings and pictures. as new. In this issue, Poland's Pulawski Fighters, Indian Coastal Defence Flights, The Bristol Blenheim Family, The Audacious Caravelle, Forest Firefighters. £6.003571. Green, W. and Swanborough, G. editors: Air Enthusiast 30. Pilot Press, Mar.-June 1986. 28 by 21 cms. 80pp. illustrated. in depth features on aircraft of the near or distant past with photos, drawings and pictures. as new. In this issue, Brazil's beautiful Aircraft collection, First generation DO17S, The Flamingo Story,Tante Ju Revival, Northrup F-15A, More Hueys in Vietnam. £6.003572. Green, W. and Swanborough, G. editors: Air Enthusiast 38. Pilot Press, Jan. - April 1989. 28 by 21 cms. 80pp. illustrated. in depth features on aircraft of the near or distant past with photos, drawings and pictures, as new. In this issue, Consolidated Model 28 Catalina, Annals of the Heinkel HE100, Sunderlands up the Yangtze, Airborne in the Fokker D VII, Boeing B-47 £6.005014. Hawks, Captain Ellison: The War in the Air: Bombers of the Present War. Southport, Real Photographs Co. Ltd, 1944. 104 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Profusely illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Covers 25 British American and German bombers. Minor wear otherwise good. £15.008989. HMSO: The Battle of Britain An Air Ministry Account of the Great Days from 8th August - 31st October 1940. London HMSO 1941. 35 pp illustrated, paper covers, staples rusted thus pages unattatched. The classic official account of the Battle in the air. £6.005504. Jefford, Wing Commander C. J.: R.A.F. Squadrons A Comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all R.A.F. Squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. England: Airlife 1988. 30 by 21.5 cms. 271 pp. extensively illustrated with contemporary photographs, very good in a price clipped dustwrapper. Probably the most detailed work of reference on the squadrons of the RAF and its World War 1 predecessors. It includes, aircraft used, aircraft manufacturers, locations used by squadrons, airfield development, location maps, and the origins of the squadrons of the Aegean Group 1918. £20.009188. Low, Professor A. M.: Parachutes in Peace and War. London: The Scientific Book Club first edition 1942. xii+228 pp. dusty a little bumped, in a dustwrapper showing some edge wear. This claims to be the first review of the history and use of the parachute. £8.004680. Mondey, David, ed: The International Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Octopus Books Limited, 1977 480pp, 32 x 24 cm, mint in dw. Profusely illustrated. Price clipped neatly from dw, and previous owner's name discreetly stamped on front endpaper. £20.0010851. Montrose Air Station Museum Trust: Montrose Airfield from 1913 A History in Words and Pictures. Montrose Air Station Museum Trust n.d. c. 1990's. 29.5 by 21 cms. 146 pp. illustrated, softcover, in very good condition. Montrose was the first operational airbase in the UK, and now has a fine museum. this book gives an excellent history of a base which will celebrate its centenary in a few years. The photographs are quite superb utterly absorbing, local history at its best. £20.0010120. Newark (Notts & Lincs) Air Museum Ltd: Newark Air Museum Winthorpe Nottinghamshire Newark: Newark (Notts & Lincs) Air Museum Ltd, 1995. One A4 sheet, folded into three vertical panels. Ten illustrations, map, etc, in colour. £5.0010885. Poolman, Kenneth: Faith, Hope and Charity Three Planes against an Air Force. London: William Kimber 1954. 200 pp. illustrated, endpaper maps, no dustwrapper, in fair/good condition. The story of the three planes which helped to defend Malta during the Second World War. £8.005400. Pugh, Peter: The Magic of a Name The Rolls Royce Story. Part Two: The Power behind the Jets. UK: Icon Books 2001. x+342 pp. illustrated, very good in a dustwrapper. The second volume of a three part history of the company. This volume tells how Rolls Royce came to dominate the design and production of engines which have powered the most advanced and successful civil and military aircraft and ships. £18.009652. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart Bay of Biscay TNC F-I. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1964. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, some wear, otherwise in good condition. Covers part of northern Spain, Portugal, western France. £15.009651. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart Strait of Gibraltar TNC G-I. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1964. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, one dusty fold edge otherwise in very good bright condition. Covers part of southern Spain, northern Morocco and Algeria. £15.009654. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart British Isles TNC E-I. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1963. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, some grubbiness and wear, otherwise in fair/good condition. Covers British Isles to Faroes. £15.009655. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart British Isles TNC F-2. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1967. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, some grubbiness and wear, otherwise in good condition. Covers northern and central Italy, parts of France, Switzerland, Austria and Yugoslavia. £15.009653. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart Strait of Sicily TNC G-2. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1964. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, some wear, otherwise in good condition. Covers part of southern Italy, Sicily, eastern Algeria and Tunisia. £15.009649. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:500,000 Topographic Tactical Chart Bordeaux France TTC FI-B. London: D.Survey, Ministry of Defence by Ordnance Survey 1965. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, otherwise in very good condition. covers northern France. £15.009650. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:500,000 Topographic Tactical Chart London TTC EI-4. London: D.Survey, Ministry of Defence by Ordnance Survey 1965. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, in very good bright condition. Covers part of northern France, and Belgium. £15.009656. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:500,000 Topographic Tactical Chart Manchester TTC EI-3. London: D.Survey, Ministry of Defence by Ordnance Survey 1964. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, in very good bright condition. Covers England. £15.009658. R.A.F.: Sheet 1 Orkney and Shetland Islands Four Miles to One Inch Series M523 Edition 1-GSGS. London: D.Survey, (WO and AM) by Ordnance Survey 1962. 40 by 90 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some edge tearing and misfolding, otherwise in fair/good condition. £10.009657. R.A.F.: Sheet 5 Eastern Highlands Four Miles to One Inch Series M523 Edition 1-GSGS. London: D.Survey, (WO and AM) by Ordnance Survey 1962. 40 by 90 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, in very good condition. Covers part of Scotland. £10.004345. Regan, Geoffrey: The Guiness Book of Flying Blunders. London: Guiness Publishing 1996. 25 by 19 cms.192 pp, illustrated, paper covers, v.g. £6.504905. Reid, John P Milford: A Short History of The Battle of Britain to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary Liverpool?: 1960? 24pp, 13 x 20.5 cms in coloured paper covers. Some staining. 44 illustrations. £5.009665. Royal Air Force: Portrait Book. A collection of twenty photographic prints, mounted in a much older photographic album. The portraits are 20 x 16.5 cm, unless stated, and are mostly of airmen standing with one foot on the wing and one foot on the jet cowling of identifiable jet aircraft. One print (21 x 29 cm) is of twenty or so jets lined up side by side on an airstrip. Readily-identifiable numbers include 51, 50, 42, 56, 7, 16, 4, 58, 2 and 12. The following print (16 x 21) is of a formal group of fourteen airmen. The following portraits are: Pete, 'Jacko' Jackson 110 Sqn, Changi (standing on 58); Tony Cook 57 Sqn, Marham (standing on 10); Alan Webb 139 Sqn, Wittering (standing on 49); Angus Morris (standing on 50); 'Sig' Stevenson (standing on 61); Paul Martin (standing on 12); Mick Cockrill (standing on 49); Mike Barnes (standing on 10); Dave Hodgkinson 210 Sqn (standing on 56); Trevor Jackson (standing on 50); Jimmy Uprichard (standing on 58); Steve Harvey (standing on 12); Stoo Waring (standing on 12); Rick Peacock-Edwards (standing on 58); Keith Poulter (standing on 12); Bill Lee (standing on 50); Ed Viney (standing on 12); and (14 x 9 cm) Dai James (standing on 12). This last airman's helmet is numbered K83. There is slight discolouration to some of the prints. The album is 30 x 24 cm, half-leather, and the pages have been painted sky-blue. £125.007907. Royal Air Force Staff Colleges: The Hawk The Journal of the Royal Air Force Staff Colleges. Bracknell, Berks. Number 19 December 1957. 25.5 by 19 cms. xv+104+xlii pp. illustrated, card covers, some wear to covers but otherwise very good. £6.003473. Saunders, Hilary A. Stg: Bomber Command. HMSO 1st.ed. 1941. 23 by 17.5 cms. 128 pp. maps, illustrations, paper covers, some pages detatched and bottom inch of spine missing, fair. The Air Ministry Account of Bomber Command's Offensive against the Axis Sept. 1939 to Jul. 1941. £4.003884. Sharpe, Michael, Scutts, Jerry and March, Dan: Aircraft of World War II - A Visual Encyclopedia. London: Parkgate Books, 1999. 512pp, 31 x 23.5 cm, mint in dw. Profusely illustrated. £25.004907. Stroud, John: USSR Air Fleet London: Rolls House Publishing Co. Ltd., for the ATC Gazette, 1950s? 58 x 45 cms sheet, folding down to 22.5 x 14.5. "Three view drawings of 30 and details of over 50 aircraft". £5.006302. U.S.A.F.: Monochrome Photograph B.58 Hustler. Oxon. 25th feb. 1964. Photograph, 20.5 by 25 cms. glossy black and white of a B.58 Hustler on the ground at Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, front, side view with ground staff attending. Enclosed letter from J.B. Oliver 1st Lt. USAF Information Officer offering the photo and stating there was no plan to replace the B-47 force with these Hustlers. The Convair B-58 Hustler was the first supersonic strategic nuclear bomber introduced 1960, with a range of 5000 miles. They were retired 36 years ago, in 1969/70. £15.006818. Walker, Ronald: Flight to Victory An Account of the R.A.F's first Year of the War. London: A Penguin Special first published Dec. 1940. 18 by 11 cms. 127 pp. illustrated, paperback. In very good tight condition. Very good first hand accounts, though of course written in wartime censorship conditiions, of the Battle of Britain, the invasions of France, Holland, Belgium, Norway, etc. £8.009723. War Office: 1:250000 Europe Air (Not to be Published) Palermo, Messina. London: Geographical Section General Staff, No. 3982 Published by the War Office printed by Ordnance Survey ,1939. A large folded map of Sicily, the Straits of Messina, Malta and Gozo. Contemporaneously joined sheets. Scale 1 inch = 3.95 miles 1cm =2.5 Km. Messina is identified as Italy Sheet J 33/5 1st edition. Compiled and drawn at WO 1938. Heliographed and printed at OS 1939. With Air Information as supplied by the Air Ministry Feb. Mar. 1939. They almost certainly formed a wall map in a wartime operations context. They came from the estate of Commodore C.A.R. Shillington CB VDR RNVR. There is some wear from wartime usage, folded as it came to us. Shows land and water aerodromes, landing grounds, seaplane mooring areas, airship bases, airports, radio communications, etc. Curiously the reference table showing comparative city sizes lists only German ones, from Berlin through Cologne, Bonn, Coblenz. Obviously a lot of hasty mapmaking was taking place in 1938/39. A nice wartime souvenir map. £55.009784. War Office: Map Mosaic covering Northern Central Italy 1:500000 Europe Air Southern Zone Layer System. London: Geographical Survey Gen. Staff No. 4072 Published by the War Office 1942. A number of contemporaneously joined maps, including Torino NE44/6, Venezia NE44/10, Ajaccio (part) and another map to the south covering Firenze to Napoli, not topographical, and this map marked as, reproduced by 512 Forward Survey Coy. RE June 1943 from WO pulls. printed by 83 Reproduction group IE Nov. 43. A mix of linen backed and paper. Some edge tears and wear, needing a bit of attention. Obviously used in a wartime operations context, probably to cover part of the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943, pinholes, probably just as it was when taken off the wall. Interesting wartime memorabilia. £45.009785. War Office: Map Mosaic covering the Middle East 1:1000000 Aeronautical edition. London: 1941/1942. 190 by 390 cms. A number of contemporaneously joined maps forming a very large mosaic, covering an area from Crete to Karachi, including Izmir, NJ35 Asia, Meshel, NJ40 Asia, Resht North J38, Medina, 37B, Al Jauf, 37H, Basra, H38, Riyadh, G38, Cairo, 36H, Bandar Abbas G40, Hofuf, 39G, Karachi,(part). For official use only. A mix of linen backed and paper. Publication dates are often obscured by paste down but visible dates are from 1941-42, Karachi may be earlier. A Flight route from Cairo-Baghdad-Mosul-Bahrein-Karachi is marked with a narrow crayon line. Some edge tears and wear, a few small edge holes, casually folded, needing a bit of attention, ironing flat and the like. Obviously used in a wartime operations context, probably just as it was when taken off the wall. From the collection of Commodore C.A.R.Shillington, C.B. V.D.R. R.N.V.R. Interesting wartime memorabilia. £95.009791. War Office: Map Mosaic: Frankfurt, NE 50/6, Strasbourg NE 48/6, Berne, (part) 1:500000 Europe (Air) Northern Zone Layer System. Restricted. Second Edition. London: June 1944. Reproduced by 512 Fd. Survey Coy. RE June 1944 from W.O 2nd ed. dated 1940. A composite map of three contemporaneously joined maps, covering Zurich to Osnabruck, and Nijmegen to Eisenach. 141 by 76 cms. Rolled coloured map, paper. Some edge tears and wear, two tears at top extending into map needing repair but no loss, pinholes, needing a bit of overall attention. Obviously used in a wartime operations context, probably to cover part of the Allied operations in western Germany in 1944/45, probably just as it was when taken off the wall. Interesting wartime memorabilia. From the collection of Commodore C.A.R.Shillington, C.B. V.D.R. R.N.V.R. £45.009722. War Office: Ordnance Survey of England and Wales Sheet 132 Portsmouth and Southampton, Sheet 133 Chichester and Worthing, 5th Edition Style Second War Revision 1940, Sheet 134 Brighton and Hove, Sheet 135 Hastings. London: Geographical Section General Staff, No. 3907 Published by the War Office printed by Ordnance Survey ,1931, 1932, 1941. Scale 1 inch to the mile. These maps have been joined together, contemporaneously, as a continuous roll covering the South Coast of England from Southampton to Dungeness. They are paper, (sheets 132 and 133) and linen backed, (sheets 134, 135). The first two are marked War Revision 1940, the second two are older 1931, presumably not yet revised. They almost certainly formed a wall map in a wartime operations context. They came from the estate of Commodore C.A.R. Shillington CB VDR RNVR. There is some wear, two small repaired holes, and a linen backing is detatching at the end but is perfectly restorable. 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