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THE INEVITABLE A fter the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, Japan’s aerial campaign in the South Pacific gets little coverag ...
42 FLYPAST 42 FLYPAST May 2018May 2018 WINGS OVER THE EAST JAPANESE OPERATIONS Moths to a flame The first aerial fighting in the ...
May 2018May 2018May 2018 FLYPAST 43FLYPAST 43FLYPAST 43FLYPAST 43 Rabaul captured At Truk, the IJN had turned its attention sout ...
44 FLYPAST 44 FLYPAST May 2018May 2018 WINGS OVER THE EAST JAPANESE OPERATIONS Battle for Gasmata In response, the Fourth Fleet ...
machine gun ammunition. In an explosive duel witnessed by the IJN personnel below, two of the Hudsons were shot down. Piloted by ...
46 FLYPAST 46 FLYPAST May 2018May 2018 WINGS OVER THE EAST JAPANESE OPERATIONS war yet for the IJN, which lost 133 experienced a ...
party of soldiers he became the first Japanese airman captured in New Guinea. He spent months recuperating in a military hospita ...
48 FLYPAST 48 FLYPAST May 2018May 2018 JUNGLEJUNGLEJUNGLE HUNTERS Roy Gamblin remembers his days opposing Indonesian forces over ...
HUNTERS O n the day of Malaysia’s formation, mobs ransacked the British Embassy in Jakarta: the so-called period of ‘Confrontati ...
50 FLYPAST 50 FLYPAST May 2018May 2018 WINGS OVER THE EAST INDONESIAN CONFRONTATION aircrew. Meanwhile, I was to become absorbed ...
May 2018May 2018May 2018 FLYPAST 51FLYPAST 51FLYPAST 51FLYPAST 51 I imagined that anything more than a two-second burst of the c ...
52 FLYPAST 52 FLYPAST May 2018May 2018 WINGS OVER THE EAST INDONESIAN CONFRONTATION 20 Squadron Hunters had been sent to Labuan ...
May 2018 FLYPAST 53 rapidly usually to around 500 to 550kts, as we hared off to the reported area, invariably to find it empty o ...
54 FLYPAST 54 FLYPAST May 2018May 2018 EASTERNEASTERNEASTERN PROMISE Easily identified by its South East Asia Command livery, Sp ...
PROMISE T his month’s cover star is the distinctively schemed Supermarine Spitfire XIV NH799, a fighter restored to fly by Avspe ...
56 FLYPAST May 2018 GHOSTGHOST Andy Hay artwork of a Beaufighter that flew with the Royal Australian Air Force O ne of five Roya ...
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58 FLYPAST 58 FLYPAST May 2018May 2018 RADIAL-ENGINEDRADIAL-ENGINEDRADIAL-ENGINED RAVAGER During the Burma campaign RAF Thunderb ...
RAVAGER C onverting from the Hurricane to the largest single-seat fighter in RAF service was quite a leap. Powered by a massive ...
60 FLYPAST 60 FLYPAST May 2018May 2018 WINGS OVER THE EAST RAF THUNDERBOLTS First Victory In mid-October, 146 and 261 Squadrons ...
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