Bring Back Stringbag Swordfish by Kilbracken John (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Acceptable. Condition exlibrary, clean with dust jacket, but spine lean and slight damage to spine. ref ZKVQ First published in 1992, an account of the five years Kilbracken spent in the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War flying Swordfish aircraft - known as Stringbags. Recounts his experiences with torpedo and rocket attacks, mine laying, convoy protection and flank engine failures.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Price-clipped. Physical description; x,227p,viiip of plates ill 23cm. Subjects; Kilbracken, John Godley Baron (1920-2006). Great Britain. Royal Navy. Fleet Air Arm. World War 1939-1945 Aerial operations British. World War 1939-1945 Naval operations British. Swordfish (Torpedo bomber). John Godley Kilbracken. Fleet Air Arm memoir. Fairey Swordfish. WWII naval aviation. P. Davies. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Price-clipped. Physical description; x,227p,viiip of plates ill 23cm. Subjects; Kilbracken, John Godley Baron (1920-2006). Great Britain. Royal Navy. Fleet Air Arm. World War 1939-1945 Aerial operations British. World War 1939-1945 Naval operations British. Swordfish (Torpedo bomber). John Godley Kilbracken. Fleet Air Arm memoir. Fairey Swordfish. WWII naval aviation. P. Davies. 1 Kg.…

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo ix + 227pp., b/w plates, appends., index, From bluejacket to Lieutenant Commander; he flew 67 operational sorties during WW2 with the Fleet Air Arm.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo ix + 227pp., b/w plates, appends., index, From bluejacket to Lieutenant Commander; he flew 67 operational sorties during WW2 with the Fleet Air Arm. Very nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket. Geoff Taylor's copy with his signature.