Items related to Flights Into History: Final Missions Retold by Research...

Flights Into History: Final Missions Retold by Research and Archaeology - Softcover

 
9780750943000: Flights Into History: Final Missions Retold by Research and Archaeology
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
In this compelling sequel to Final Flights, aviation archaeologist Ian McLachlan has reconstructed the dramatic last flights of Second World War airmen, including the first Fortress to fall in combat from the USAAF's 447th Bomber Group; the final flight of an intruder Mosquito pursuing a German night fighter; the courage of a Lancaster pilot responsible for six lives aboard a burning aircraft; the story of a Spitfire's last flight and its heroic Belgian pilot.  Exciting stories are also recounted of those whose misdirected courage saw them serve under the swastika.
 
In reconstructing long-forgotten wartime events, often from buried wreckage, eyewitness accounts and contemporary documentation, aviation archaeologists can bring recognition to the individual flyers involved and shed new light on the air war over Britain and Europe during the Second World War.
 
Even the discovery of small fragments can be significant.  They provide evidence or prompt new research, revealing stories that offer a uniquely human dimension and reveal the hopes, fears, aspirations and pleasures of the aircrew involved.  Ian McLachlan and other aviation archaeologists have now done them justice. 
 
Ian McLachlan is an authority on the history of the wartime USAAF and is the author of six titles, including Eighth Air Force Bomber Stories: A New Selection (2004 and USAAF Fighter Stories: A New Selection (2005).  He lives in Suffolk.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:
Ian McLachlan is an authority on the history of the wartime USAAF and is the author of six titles, including Eighth Air Force Bomber Stories: A New Selection (2004 and USAAF Fighter Stories : A New Selection (2005). He lives in Suffolk.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherThe History Press Ltd
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 0750943009
  • ISBN 13 9780750943000
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages204

(No Available Copies)

Search Books:



Create a Want

If you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you!

Create a Want

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780752456393: Flights Into History: Final Missions Retold by Research and Archaeology

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780752456393
Publisher: The History Press, 2010
Softcover

  • 9780750942997: Flights Into History: Final Missions Retold by Research and Archaeology

    The Hi..., 2007
    Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace