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Battle of Britain Combat Archive 10: 4 Sept. – 6 Sept. 1940
34,95 €Volume Ten contains:
Over 100 original wartime photos
10 combat maps
3 Specially commissioned combat scenes by Piotr Forkasiewicz, one of the worlds leading digital aviation artists. -
Battle of Britain Combat Archive 11: 7 Sept. – 8 Sept. 1940
34,95 €Volume 11 contains:
Over 100 original wartime photos
3 combat maps
2 Specially commissioned combat scenes by Piotr Forkasiewicz, one of the worlds leading digital aviation artists. -
Battle of Britain Combat Archive 12: 9 Sept. – 11 Sept. 1940 1940
36,80 €Volume 12 covers 9-11 September as the Luftwaffe continued to pitch large, multi-formation raids against London and 11 Group started to experiment with sending paired squadrons up for combat. These tactics would ultimately lead to the epic battles seen on 15 September which will be covered in the next volume. Because of the incredible amount of rare material unearthed for these days, this volume is a supersized 144 pages.
Volume Twelve contains:
Over 100 original wartime photos
9 combat maps
2 Specially commissioned combat scenes by Piotr Forkasiewicz, one of the worlds leading digital aviation artists. -
Dunkirk to The Fall of France. 3 June – 18 June 1940 Air Combat Archive
27,50 €This first volume ‚Dunkirk to the Fall of France‘ covers 3rd – 18th June 1940. This period is significant as it begins at the end of the Dunkirk evacuation and ends on the day that the RAF flew its last operational sorties from France. During this hectic two weeks, RAF squadrons in France retreated further and further south, becoming ever more scattered and outnumbered. Squadron records were either lost or destroyed making this fortnight very difficult to research. Despite this, the author has managed to piece together the combats and losses that took place and illustrates them with detailed maps as well as the usual combat and intelligence reports.
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Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX in RAF-Service, NW Europe and the Med. Wingleader Photo Archive Number 20
27,95 €When Spitfire Mk V pilots first met the FW190s of JG26 in August 1941, it immediately became apparent their old Spitfires were completely outclassed by the Luftwaffes new fighter. Losses rose rapidly as more Spitfires fell to the guns of the FW190 pilots until, on 13 November 1941, all but essential fighter operations over Europe were halted.
A new fighter capable of matching the performance of the FW190 was needed urgently. The planned successors to the Spitfire Mk V were the Mk VII and Mk VIII, but they would take far too long to become operational. Fortunately, Rolls-Royce had experimented with fitting a Merlin 60 engine in their test-bed Spitfire in September 1941 and the increase in performance over the Mk V was significant. The Air Ministry took the decision to marry the tried-and-tested Mk V airframe with the new Merlin to bypass the delays in perfecting a new airframe and get a better Spitfire operational as soon as possible. The Spitfire Mk IX entered service nine months later, in June 1942 and went on to become, in the eyes of many pilots, the best of the breed.
This book contains approx 120 original wartime/pre-war photos and 6 in-depth colour profiles.