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1 online resource |
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ANZAC BATTLES SERIES; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; RAF RANKS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 -- Beginnings; The Dream; Opportunity; Journey; Training; CHAPTER 2 -- The Prelude; Aircraft; France Falls; Tactics; Gunnery; CHAPTER 3 -- Channel Battles; Keith Park; Battle Begins; First Losses; Slaughter of the Innocents; Killing; CHAPTER 4 -- Life and Death; Death and Grief; Blowing off Steam; Accidents; Ground Crews; Kanalkampf Endgame; CHAPTER 5 -- Eagle Attack; Dowding System; Battle Joined; Adlertag; Assessment; Northern Attack; CHAPTER 6 -- Shot Down. |
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Anzac POWClosing the Greatest Day; Caterpillar Club; Gratitude; CHAPTER 7 -- Sector Airfields; Changing Targets; Defiant Redux; Big Wings; Toe-to-Toe; Close Calls; Head-on Attacks; CHAPTER 8 -- Hard Pressed; Inserting Newcomers; Fatigue and Fear; Australian Ace; Girlfriends and Wives; CHAPTER 9 -- London Burning; Target London; The Blitz and Night Fighting; Fire; Guinea Pigs; Battle of Britain Day; CHAPTER 10 -- Last Gasps; Defending the Aviation Industries; Messerschmitt Month; Big Wings Clipped; Last Days; CHAPTER 11 -- Conclusions; Anzacs; Keith Park: The Defender of London; Tally Sheets. |
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Antipodean AirmenThe Aces; Losses and Injuries; Beyond the Battle; APPENDIX -- New Zealand and Australian Airmen in the Battle of Britain; NOTES; INDEX. |
| Summary |
This book tells the story of Australians and New Zealanders in one of the Second World War's defining and most memorable campaigns. From 9 July until 31 October 1940, the German air force (the Luftwaffe) sought aerial supremacy in skies over England as a prerequisite for an invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion). The ensuing conflict of Luftwaffe and RAF aircraft in the long summer of 1940 became forever known as the Battle of Britain. Of the 574 overseas pilots in the campaign, the New Zealand contingent of 134 airmen was second in size only to the Polish contribution. The Australian involve. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Britain, Battle of (Great Britain : 1940) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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1939-1945 |
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Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940.
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Fighter plane combat -- Great Britain.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Australian.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, New Zealand.
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Fighter pilots -- Australia.
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Fighter pilots -- New Zealand.
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Fighter pilots. |
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Fighter plane combat. |
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Military operations, Aerial -- Australian. |
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Military operations, Aerial -- New Zealand. |
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Australia. |
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Great Britain. |
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New Zealand. |
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Electronic books. |
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781783469482 : $10.99 |
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178346948X : $10.99 |
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