RAF Fighter Units
Subtitle: Europe 1939-1942 (Osprey Airwar 1)
Contributors: Gerry Embleton (Illustrator)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: July 15, 1977
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780850450910
Subjects: Aircraft: general interest; Modern - 20th Century; Military; History; History - Military / War; Military - World War II; History / Military / Aviation; World War, 1939-1945; Military - Aviation; Aerial operations, British
First sentence: mediate hostilities the RAF could have put only 759 fighters into the air, of which only 93 were monoplanes, to combat Germany's 1,200 modern bombers. By September 1939, although still eighteen squadrons short of the 53 he felt necessary to defend the United Kingdom, Dowding had 22 Hurricane and Spitfire squadrons.