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Don Clark |
Posted: Jul 22 2019, 11:14 AM
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Beaufighter Boys: True Tales of Those Who Flew Bristol's Mighty Twin
G Pitchfork (Grub Street 2019) Air Commodore (ret'd) G Pitchfork MBE first began work on this book in 2002. Delayed by circumstances, Graham took up the task again in 2018 and it was published at last by Grub Street in July 2019. The reminiscences of Beaufighter crew are, for the most part, those shared with him back then and will be fresh to most readers. A few cases are extracts from published memoirs. There are three chapters recounting the exploits of several RAAF Beaufighter Squadrons (and one RNZAF). While there are some familiar photos, many more are either less well-known from official sources or fresh, from personal collections. Printing & image techniques have advanced again in recent years, so the images are well-produced at appropriate sizes placed throughout. In Beaufighter Boys, Graham has made another very fine contribution to RAF/RAAF history. Available from the usual places (Grub Street, Amazon, Booktopia, eg). Footnote I know and greatly respect Graham and his many works. Although his efforts in this case have been slightly let down in publishing by a number of typographical errors, this remains a fine book overall. Examples p13: Hercules "rotary engines" should be "radial engines" p17: "211 Squadron reformed in August 1944" should be "...reformed in August 1943" p163: "There does not appear to be any hard experience" should presumably be "any hard evidence" p178 "flew 57 operations over Burma" should be "...flew 51 operations..." This post has been edited by Don Clark on Aug 11 2019, 01:32 PM |