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“The Hampden stalled and, before Bradley could complete the recovery, it crashed on the northern edge of the small village of Ha ...

MEN BEHIND THE MEDALS LIONEL COLES 16th/17th, a round trip of almost nine hours. The following night they returned to the ‘Big C ...

back to Lorient two nights later. Although relatively inexperienced, the Dierkes crew were beginning to make a name for tenacity ...

MEN BEHIND THE MEDALS LIONEL COLES Next night it was back to the ‘Big City’ and two nights later the crew made its fifth and fin ...

 

 
 


  
 
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PILOT’S PERSPECTIVE TP-51C MUSTANG 26 FLYPAST May 2015 History Piece of Dave Unwin samples the Collings Foundation’s ultra-rare ...

IN THE LOGBOOKIN THE LOGBOOK May 2015FLYPAST 27 C lear prop! The starter whines and the giant four- blade prop slowly begins to ...

28 FLYPAST May 2015 PILOT’S PERSPECTIVE TP-51C MUSTANG As things turn out, Jim is needed at the B-24’s controls at the time of t ...

May 2015FLYPAST 29 surfaces are fitted with pilot- operated trim-tabs. The heart of the Mustang is one of the finest – and most ...

PILOT’S PERSPECTIVE TP-51C MUSTANG 30 FLYPAST May 2015 TF-51D, the TP-51C’s is a much more cumbersome affair. An interlocking ‘c ...

IN THE LOGBOOKIN THE LOGBOOK May 2015FLYPAST 31 formation. As we close in on the big bomber, I fully appreciate just what a fat ...

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May 2015 FLYPAST 33 IN MAY 1940 HITLER UNLEASHED HIS FORCES ON AN UNPREPARED WESTERN EUROPE, AND WITHIN A FEW WEEKS HAD SMASHED ...

34 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 I t is easy to imagine the sense of trepidation in British homes as British Prime Minister Wins ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 35 had almost always pushed on ahead of those units tasked with mounting a defence. On June 10, Italy also inva ...

36 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 BIPLANES OVER CALAIS OPERATION DYNAMO A fter the so-called ‘Phoney War’, the ferocity of the Ge ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 37 pilots, was regarded as “a cheerful old buffer”! As the unit gradually built up in its new role there was a ...

38 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 was parlous and there was a serious shortage of ammunition. On the evening of the 25th, the Lys ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 39 Bofors, heavy AA and machine gun. No casualties were sustained by the formation.” DAWN RAIDS As a bright daw ...

40 FLYPAST May 2015 194019401940 “...EVEN IF, WHICH I DO NOT FOR A MOMENT BELIEVE, THIS ISLAND OR A LARGE PART OF IT WERE SUBJUG ...