Aces, Warriors and Wingman - The Firsthand Accounts of Canada s Fighter Pilots in Second World

Informationen zum Autor Wayne Ralph was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and served as a pilot in the Canadian Armed Forces between 1965 and 1973. From 1981-1983, Wayne w2as a Dept. of National Defence Strategic Studies Scholar at the University of Calgary. he is the former editor of Wings Magazine, past president of the Air Force Officers Association of Greater Vancouver, and a member of the Air Force Association of Canada. He published a biography of William Barker, the air ace from the First World War, and Barker VC became a bestseller in Canada and the UK, won the McWilliams Medal of the Manitoba Historical Society, and was the basis for two television documentaries. Klappentext . Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments.Prologue.Introduction.PART ONE: KITTYHAWK ACE OF THE WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN.James Francis "Stocky" Edwards, Wing Commander.PART TWO: CANADIANS IN THE SIEGE OF MALTA.Roderick Illingsworth Alpine Smith, Squadron Leader.Robert George "Bob" Middlemiss, Flight Lieutenant.Ian Roy Maclennan, Flight Lieutenant.Robert Carl "Moose" Fumerton, Wing Commander.Leslie Patrick Sandford "Pat" Bing, Flight Lieutenant (Fumerton's navigator).Gordon Henry Taylor Farquharson, Flight Lieutenant.PART THREE: THE WESTERN DESERT, 1942-43, AND ITALY, 1943-44.Death of a Luftwaffe Ace in the Western Desert.John Terrane "Terry" Field, Flight Lieutenant.Rex Howard Probert, Flight Lieutenant.Milton Eardley Jowsey, Flight Lieutenant.Stanley John Kernaghan, Flight Lieutenant.Irving Farmer "Hap" Kennedy, Squadron Leader.David Goldberg, Squadron Leader.PART FOUR: THE WORLD OF THE UNARMED PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE PILOT.John William "Brick" Bradford, Flying Officer.William Keir "Bill" Carr, Flight Lieutenant.PART FIVE: CANADIANS IN THE RAF AND FLEET AIR ARM, 1939-40.William Lidstone "Willie" McKnight, Flying Officer.Arthur Henry "Art" Deacon, Flight Lieutenant.Richard Edward Bartlett, Lieutenant.PART SIX: THE DEADLY YEARS: RHUBARBS AND CIRCUSES AND MANY, MANY WULFIES.William Barry Needham, Flight Lieutenant.George Dennis Aitken, Flight Lieutenant.Lloyd Vernon Chadburn, Wing Commander.Robert Dulmage "Dagwood" Phillip, Flight Lieutenant.Arthur John "Jack" Moul, Squardron Leader.Michell Johnston, Squadron Leader.Norris Edmund Hunt, Flight Lieutenant.Roman Roy Wozniak, Flight Lieutenant.Douglas Warren, Flight Lieutenant.Bruce Warren, Flight Lieutenant.Allan Robert McFadden, Flight Lieutenant.Richard Drummond Forbes-Roberts, Flight Lieutenant.Arthur Hazelton Sager, Flight Lieutenant.Richard Douglas Booth, Flight Lieutenant.William Francis Joseph Mason, Flight Lieutenant.PART SEVEN: THE WORLD OF THE BEAUFIGTHER AND MOSQUITO IN BRITAIN.Robert Ross "Bob" Ferguson, Squadron Leader.Rayne Dennis Schultz, Squadron Leader.Ian Anderson March, Flight Lieutenant.William Horace Vincent, Flight Lieutenant.Harold Douglas McNabb, Flight Lieutenant.George "Red" Sutherland, Squadron Leader.David John "Blackie" Williams, Wing Commander.Clarence Joseph Kirkpatrick, Flight Lieutenant (navigatorwith Williams, Bannock).James Davidson Wright, Flight Lieutenant (navigator with Squadron Leader McFadyen).Ross Hunter Finlayson, Flight Lieutenant.William Lloyd Marr, Flight Lieutenant.John Harod "Jack" Phillips, Flight Lieutenant.Russell William "Russ" Bannock, Wing Commander.Sydney Simon Shulemson, Flight Lieutenant.PART EIGHT: TWO AMERICANS IN THE RCAF.Philip Gordon (Bockman) Vickers, Flying Officer.Howard Lynn Phillips, Flight Lieutenant.PART NINE: RCAF SPITFIRE OPERATIONS, FROM BRITAIN AND EUROPE.Kenneth Charels Lett, FLight Lieutenant.James Douglas Lindsay, Flight Lieutenant.Donald Currie Laubman, Squadron Leader.Robert Bruce Barker, Flight Lieutenant.PART TEN: CANADA'S TYPHOON PILOTS.Harry James Hardy, Flight Lieutenant.William Ivan Mouat, Flight Lieutenant.John Wallace Porter, Flight Lieutenant.Donald Edward George Martyn, Flight Lieutenant.Herbert Roy Burden, Flight Lieutenant.Robert Edward Spooner, Squ...

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• Authors: Wayne Ralph
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2005
• EAN: 9780470835906
• ISBN: 978-0-470-83590-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)