Fighter Squadron

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{detailed description}FIGHTER SQUADRON is the definitive story of No. 19 Fighter Squadron. The author's painstaking, comprehensive research brings to life the spirit of the squadron.
19 Fighter Squadron is a living, breathing entity, born in 1915, and made of men who have lived and died for their country.
When we look at a modern squadron we usually forget its roots or the fact that the spirit has remained unaltered. The machines may have changed, but the dignity and sacrifice that compelled these men to come through two World Wars is even today very much unchanged.

"The author is to be applauded for producing a history which is more balanced than many, and not merely an enlarged WW2 history.
Fighter Squadron is a researcher's delight and deserves recognition as an important contribution to WW1 as well as general aviation literaure."
(Cross & Cockade, The Society of World War I Aero Historians).

"This is a book about No. 19 Fighter Squadron from its birth in 1915 until the present day. With over 380 pages and more than 100 photographs and line drawings, its claim to be one of the most comprehensive squadron histories ever to be published seems well substantiated and anyone who has served with 19 Squadron should avail themselves of a copy. Not that service with this squadron is necessary for enjoyment of this reference book, for diary of events, combat reports from the two great wars and the anecdotes and reminiscences of squadron personnel make for most interesting reading."
(Air-Mail - Spring 1991, Journal of the RAFA).
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Derek Palmer
Published by the Self Publishing Association 1991 reprint. 384pp illustrated. 19x25
{condition}fine, d/j has small tear at top of spine.
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