num_pages: 418
description: This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew Spitfires Hurricanes and Defiants in England against the Luftwaffe and from Malta 1940-45 against the Regia Aeronautica. Their story is told using combat reports and first person accounts from RAF German and Commonwealth pilots who fought in the skies in France in 1940 in England during the Battle of Britain and in the great air offensives over Occupied Europe from 1942 onwards. Chapters include the stories of Wing Commander D. R. S. Bader Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert 'Sailor' Malan Oberleutnant Ulrich Steinhilper Flight Lieutenant H. M. Stephen Squadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck 'Johnny' Johnson Squadron Leader M. N. Crossley Squadron Leader A. McKellar 'Cowboy' Blatchford and Squadron Leader D. H. Smith an Australian veteran of the Battle of Malta and many others whose names have now become legendary.
language: English
title: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation