The armed rovers : Beauforts & Beaufighters over the Mediterranean
by Roy Conyers Nesbit
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The little-known story of how the Royal Air Force kept supplies from reaching Rommel's Afrika Korps, by an RAF veteran and renowned aviation historian. By far the most dangerous of the RAF operations during the Second World War were daylight attacks on enemy shipping, yet little has been written about this aerial campaign and the brave airmen who took part. In particular, the intense air-sea battles that were fought in the Mediterranean have been neglected in histories of the war in North show more Africa and Italy. Roy Nesbit, in this classic account, sets the record straight by describing in vivid detail how a few RAF squadrons were successful in destroying supplies vital to the Italian and German armies during the fighting in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia. At critical moments during the land battles, during the dramatic advances and retreats that characterized the fighting in the desert, the failure of supplies to get through to Rommel's Afrika Korps was decisive. But the casualties suffered by the airmen in these low-level attacks were daunting, as were those among the naval and merchant seamen whose vessels were targeted. This is their dramatic true story, by the author of The Royal Air Force: An Illustrated History From 1918 and Arctic Airmen. show lessTags
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An episodic narrative history of the RAF squadrons equipped with maritime strike aircraft written by a man with experience in such machines. Apart from being a bit too gushing about the impact of Allied signal intelligence and the legend of Erwin Rommel this book still fills a real gap about the history of the RAF in World War II.
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Roy Conyers Nesbit is the author of more than sixteen books on aspects of aviation history, including three volumes of The RAF in Camera, Eyes of the RAF, Coastal Command in Action 1939-1945 and RAF: An Illustrated History from 1918, for Sutton Publishing. Georges Van Acker is a Belgian air historian, specialising in the Luftwaffe, who has spent show more five years researching the Hess story. show less
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- Important places
- Mediterranean Sea
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945)
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- History, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.544941 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- Military history of World War II Air operations Operations of specific countries Europe British Isles
- LCC
- D786 .N473 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War II (1939-1945)
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- English
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