Squadrons of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth 1918-1988
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✦ Synopsis
Air Britain Historians Ltd, 1988. — 592 p. — ISBN 0851301649.
592 pages, illustrated throughout with B&W photographs and drawings of squadron crests. A must for aviation historians, providing the history and details of aircraft, plus precise dates of the movements and placements of all RAF and Commonwealth squadrons over a 70-year period.✦ Subjects
Военные дисциплины;Оружие и военная техника;Авиационное вооружение и техника;История авиационного вооружения и техники
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Author's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART I Operations and Training; Chapter 1 The Failure of Disarmament, 1930 to 1932; Chapter 2 The Rise of the Dictators, 1933 to 1936; Chapter 3 The Prelude to War, 1937 to 1939; Chapter 4 RAF Operations, 19
The outbreak of World War I found the British Army's Royal Flying Corps with just over 200 fragile, unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, and a uniformed strength of just over 2,000 all ranks; the Royal Naval Air Service had some 50 seaplanes. By the Armistice of 1918 the unified Royal Air Force was the