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Airforce8314. : Second Report of the U.S. Army Air Forces to the Secretary of War Feb. 27th 1945. H.M.S.O. 1945. 23 by 18 cms. 96 pp. illustrated, paper covers. The covers are fairly dusty but generally this is in good condition, interesting photographs. £7.003486. : Air Reserve Gazette. Vol 1 no 5. Oct. 1946. 25 by 18.5 cms. 35 pp. illustrations, paper covers, in good condition. £10.004904. : Cadets Manual Stanmore, Middlesex: Air Training Corps, 1941 c60pp, 24.5 x 15 cms. ATCP 60, 1st edition. Various instruction sheets tied into card covers, in good condition. Issued to Cadet Alfred Montgomery of Belfast, 30.01.43. £10.003489. : R.A.F. Parade - A War Record of Achievement. London and Watford: The Sun Engraving Co. Ltd, c1940. 64pp, 21 x 13.5. cms. "Over 100 photographic illustrations." Paper covers, good. £5.0010419. Air Ministry: Sea Survival Air Ministry Pamphlet 224. London: reprinted June 1952. 13.5 by 10.5 cms. 37 pp. illustrated, some wear, good. £10.0012318. Archer, Wesley David: Death in the Air The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot. London: William Heinemann second edition 1936. xvi+159 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated, hardback, no dustwrapper. The frontispiece is detatched, otherwise in very good condition. These photos are faked, a scam dreamt up by the author and his wife to make some money in the Depression. Fascinating nonetheless. £35.005463. Bowyer, Chaz: Coastal Command at War. London: Ian Allan 1979. 30 by 22 cms. 159 pp. illustrated with contemporary photographs, very good in dustwrapper. A bright fresh copy. £15.003481. Cotterell, Anthony: Roof over Britain. HMSO 1st.ed. 1943 20.5 by 13 cms. 88 pp. illustrations, paper covers, in good condition. The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942. £5.003570. Green, W. and Swanborough, G. editors: Air Enthusiast 28. Pilot Press, July-Oct. 1985. 28 by 21 cms. 80pp. illustrated. in depth features on aircraft of the near or distant past with photos, drawings and pictures. as new. In this issue, Poland's Pulawski Fighters, Indian Coastal Defence Flights, The Bristol Blenheim Family, The Audacious Caravelle, Forest Firefighters. £6.003571. Green, W. and Swanborough, G. editors: Air Enthusiast 30. Pilot Press, Mar.-June 1986. 28 by 21 cms. 80pp. illustrated. in depth features on aircraft of the near or distant past with photos, drawings and pictures. as new. In this issue, Brazil's beautiful Aircraft collection, First generation DO17S, The Flamingo Story,Tante Ju Revival, Northrup F-15A, More Hueys in Vietnam. £6.005014. Hawks, Captain Ellison: The War in the Air: Bombers of the Present War. Southport, Real Photographs Co. Ltd, 1944. 104 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Profusely illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Covers 25 British American and German bombers. Minor wear otherwise good. £15.0012790. McAllister, J.S.V.: Ulster's Flyers. Ulster Airmail June 1992. An offprint from Ulster Airmail Vol 24 No6 June 1992. 11pp, paper covers stapled, in very good condition. Part of a series on men and women from Ulster who served in the RAF. Jim McAllister joined up in 1940, and this is his highly readable service record. £6.0010851. Montrose Air Station Museum Trust: Montrose Airfield from 1913 A History in Words and Pictures. Montrose Air Station Museum Trust n.d. c. 1990's. 29.5 by 21 cms. 146 pp. illustrated, softcover, in very good condition. Montrose was the first operational airbase in the UK, and now has a fine museum. this book gives an excellent history of a base which will celebrate its centenary in a few years. The photographs are quite superb utterly absorbing, local history at its best. £20.0010120. Newark (Notts & Lincs) Air Museum Ltd: Newark Air Museum Winthorpe Nottinghamshire Newark: Newark (Notts & Lincs) Air Museum Ltd, 1995. One A4 sheet, folded into three vertical panels. Ten illustrations, map, etc, in colour. £5.0013686. O'Byrne, Robert: Desmond Leslie (1921-2001) The Biography of an Irish Gentleman. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2010. 215 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Illustrated. Hardback, in a v.g. dustwrapper, in v.g. condition, almost as new. A spitfire pilot and ufologist, he was a member of the eccentric Leslie family of Glaslough, County Monaghan. £10.0011973. R.A.A.F. Directorate of Public Relations.: RAAF Log. Canberra: The Royal Australian Air Force Australian War Memorial Canberra 1943. 28 by 21.5 cms. 200 pp. illustrated, hardback, no dustwrapper, in very good condition with excellent illustrations. £15.0011975. R.A.A.F. Directorate of Public Relations.: RAAF Saga. Canberra: The Royal Australian Air Force Australian War Memorial Canberra 1944. 28 by 21.5 cms. 200 pp. illustrated, hardback, no dustwrapper, in very good condition with excellent illustrations. Contains Honour Roll. £30.0011974. R.A.A.F. Directorate of Public Relations.: These Eagles History of the RAAF at War. Canberra: The Royal Australian Air Force Australian War Memorial Canberra 1942. 28 by 21.5 cms. 200 pp. illustrated, hardback, no dustwrapper, in very good condition with excellent illustrations. £15.009652. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart Bay of Biscay TNC F-I. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1964. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, some wear, otherwise in good condition. Covers part of northern Spain, Portugal, western France. £15.009651. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart Strait of Gibraltar TNC G-I. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1964. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, one dusty fold edge otherwise in very good bright condition. Covers part of southern Spain, northern Morocco and Algeria. £15.009654. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart British Isles TNC E-I. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1963. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, some grubbiness and wear, otherwise in fair/good condition. Covers British Isles to Faroes. £15.009655. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart British Isles TNC F-2. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1967. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, some grubbiness and wear, otherwise in good condition. Covers northern and central Italy, parts of France, Switzerland, Austria and Yugoslavia. £15.009653. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:1,000,000 Topographic Navigation Chart Strait of Sicily TNC G-2. London: D.Survey, War Office and Air Ministry by Ordnance Survey 1964. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, some wear, otherwise in good condition. Covers part of southern Italy, Sicily, eastern Algeria and Tunisia. £15.009649. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:500,000 Topographic Tactical Chart Bordeaux France TTC FI-B. London: D.Survey, Ministry of Defence by Ordnance Survey 1965. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some dusty fold edges, otherwise in very good condition. covers northern France. £15.009650. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:500,000 Topographic Tactical Chart London TTC EI-4. London: D.Survey, Ministry of Defence by Ordnance Survey 1965. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, in very good bright condition. Covers part of northern France, and Belgium. £15.009656. R.A.F.: R.A.F. 1:500,000 Topographic Tactical Chart Manchester TTC EI-3. London: D.Survey, Ministry of Defence by Ordnance Survey 1964. 104 by 155 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, in very good bright condition. Covers England. £15.009658. R.A.F.: Sheet 1 Orkney and Shetland Islands Four Miles to One Inch Series M523 Edition 1-GSGS. London: D.Survey, (WO and AM) by Ordnance Survey 1962. 40 by 90 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, some edge tearing and misfolding, otherwise in fair/good condition. £10.009657. R.A.F.: Sheet 5 Eastern Highlands Four Miles to One Inch Series M523 Edition 1-GSGS. London: D.Survey, (WO and AM) by Ordnance Survey 1962. 40 by 90 cms. Folded, paper large map, coloured, in very good condition. Covers part of Scotland. £10.004345. Regan, Geoffrey: The Guiness Book of Flying Blunders. London: Guiness Publishing 1996. 25 by 19 cms.192 pp, illustrated, paper covers, v.g. £6.504905. Reid, John P Milford: A Short History of The Battle of Britain to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary Liverpool?: 1960? 24pp, 13 x 20.5 cms in coloured paper covers. Some staining. 44 illustrations. £5.009665. Royal Air Force: Portrait Book. A collection of twenty photographic prints, mounted in a much older photographic album. The portraits are 20 x 16.5 cm, unless stated, and are mostly of airmen standing with one foot on the wing and one foot on the jet cowling of identifiable jet aircraft. One print (21 x 29 cm) is of twenty or so jets lined up side by side on an airstrip. Readily-identifiable numbers include 51, 50, 42, 56, 7, 16, 4, 58, 2 and 12. The following print (16 x 21) is of a formal group of fourteen airmen. The following portraits are: Pete, 'Jacko' Jackson 110 Sqn, Changi (standing on 58); Tony Cook 57 Sqn, Marham (standing on 10); Alan Webb 139 Sqn, Wittering (standing on 49); Angus Morris (standing on 50); 'Sig' Stevenson (standing on 61); Paul Martin (standing on 12); Mick Cockrill (standing on 49); Mike Barnes (standing on 10); Dave Hodgkinson 210 Sqn (standing on 56); Trevor Jackson (standing on 50); Jimmy Uprichard (standing on 58); Steve Harvey (standing on 12); Stoo Waring (standing on 12); Rick Peacock-Edwards (standing on 58); Keith Poulter (standing on 12); Bill Lee (standing on 50); Ed Viney (standing on 12); and (14 x 9 cm) Dai James (standing on 12). This last airman's helmet is numbered K83. There is slight discolouration to some of the prints. The album is 30 x 24 cm, half-leather, and the pages have been painted sky-blue. £150.007907. Royal Air Force Staff Colleges: The Hawk The Journal of the Royal Air Force Staff Colleges. Bracknell, Berks. Number 19 December 1957. 25.5 by 19 cms. xv+104+xlii pp. illustrated, card covers, some wear to covers but otherwise very good. £6.003473. Saunders, Hilary A. Stg: Bomber Command. HMSO 1st.ed. 1941. 23 by 17.5 cms. 128 pp. maps, illustrations, paper covers, some pages detatched and bottom inch of spine missing, fair. The Air Ministry Account of Bomber Command's Offensive against the Axis Sept. 1939 to Jul. 1941. £9.507260. Saunders, Hilary A. Stg.: Coastal Command The Air Ministry Account of the Part Played by Coastal Command in the Battle of the Seas 1939-1942. London: H.M.S.O.1943. 143 pp. 30 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs. Pictorial card covers. Apart from a half inch loss of spine, a good copy. £8.004907. Stroud, John: USSR Air Fleet London: Rolls House Publishing Co. Ltd., for the ATC Gazette, 1950s? 58 x 45 cms sheet, folding down to 22.5 x 14.5. "Three view drawings of 30 and details of over 50 aircraft". £5.0012812. Tickell, Jerrard: Ascalon The Story of Sir Winston Churchill's War-Time Flights 1943-1945. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1964. 128 pp. illustrated, softcovers, showing minor wear otherwise good. "The York Ascalon and her Douglas C54 Skymaster successor were the personal aircraft of Sir Winston Churchill during the War years. In those days navigational aids were few and far between. Hitler's Luftwaffe were keyed up and avid to pounce. Had they succeeded in penetrating the smokescreen of security which surrounded every Allied flight the consequences to the Allied cause would have been incalculable". Seemingly a bit scarce £15.009723. War Office: 1:250000 Europe Air (Not to be Published) Palermo, Messina. London: Geographical Section General Staff, No. 3982 Published by the War Office printed by Ordnance Survey ,1939. A large folded map of Sicily, the Straits of Messina, Malta and Gozo. Contemporaneously joined sheets. Scale 1 inch = 3.95 miles 1cm =2.5 Km. Messina is identified as Italy Sheet J 33/5 1st edition. Compiled and drawn at WO 1938. Heliographed and printed at OS 1939. With Air Information as supplied by the Air Ministry Feb. Mar. 1939. They almost certainly formed a wall map in a wartime operations context. They came from the estate of Commodore C.A.R. Shillington CB VDR RNVR. There is some wear from wartime usage, folded as it came to us. Shows land and water aerodromes, landing grounds, seaplane mooring areas, airship bases, airports, radio communications, etc. Curiously the reference table showing comparative city sizes lists only German ones, from Berlin through Cologne, Bonn, Coblenz. Obviously a lot of hasty mapmaking was taking place in 1938/39. A nice wartime souvenir map. £55.009784. War Office: Map Mosaic covering Northern Central Italy 1:500000 Europe Air Southern Zone Layer System. London: Geographical Survey Gen. Staff No. 4072 Published by the War Office 1942. A number of contemporaneously joined maps, including Torino NE44/6, Venezia NE44/10, Ajaccio (part) and another map to the south covering Firenze to Napoli, not topographical, and this map marked as, reproduced by 512 Forward Survey Coy. RE June 1943 from WO pulls. printed by 83 Reproduction group IE Nov. 43. A mix of linen backed and paper. Some edge tears and wear, needing a bit of attention. Obviously used in a wartime operations context, probably to cover part of the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943, pinholes, probably just as it was when taken off the wall. Interesting wartime memorabilia. £45.009791. War Office: Map Mosaic: Frankfurt, NE 50/6, Strasbourg NE 48/6, Berne, (part) 1:500000 Europe (Air) Northern Zone Layer System. Restricted. Second Edition. London: June 1944. Reproduced by 512 Fd. Survey Coy. RE June 1944 from W.O 2nd ed. dated 1940. A composite map of three contemporaneously joined maps, covering Zurich to Osnabruck, and Nijmegen to Eisenach. 141 by 76 cms. Rolled coloured map, paper. Some edge tears and wear, two tears at top extending into map needing repair but no loss, pinholes, needing a bit of overall attention. Obviously used in a wartime operations context, probably to cover part of the Allied operations in western Germany in 1944/45, probably just as it was when taken off the wall. Interesting wartime memorabilia. From the collection of Commodore C.A.R.Shillington, C.B. V.D.R. R.N.V.R. £45.009722. War Office: Ordnance Survey of England and Wales Sheet 132 Portsmouth and Southampton, Sheet 133 Chichester and Worthing, 5th Edition Style Second War Revision 1940, Sheet 134 Brighton and Hove, Sheet 135 Hastings. London: Geographical Section General Staff, No. 3907 Published by the War Office printed by Ordnance Survey ,1931, 1932, 1941. Scale 1 inch to the mile. These maps have been joined together, contemporaneously, as a continuous roll covering the South Coast of England from Southampton to Dungeness. They are paper, (sheets 132 and 133) and linen backed, (sheets 134, 135). The first two are marked War Revision 1940, the second two are older 1931, presumably not yet revised. They almost certainly formed a wall map in a wartime operations context. They came from the estate of Commodore C.A.R. Shillington CB VDR RNVR. There is some wear, two small repaired holes, and a linen backing is detatching at the end but is perfectly restorable. A nice wartime souvenir map. £55.00 |
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