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UNINA9910462037803321 |
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Mawer Granville Allen <1919-1943.> |
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Diary of a Spitfire Pilot [[electronic resource] /] / Granville Allen Mawer |
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Dural Delivery Centre, N.S.W., : Rosenberg Pub., 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Fighter pilots - Australia |
Spitfire (Fighter plane) |
World War, 1939-1945 |
World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, Australian |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; Wings; Atlantic Convoy; Malan's Mongrels; Hurrybirds; Nightfighter; Love and War; Sweeping the Channel; A Dornier at Dieppe; Officer and Gentleman; Home for Christmas?; Top End Transit; Zeros Over Darwin; Going South; Unserviceable; EPILOGUE; Legacy; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Allen Mawer's diary is a candid and sometimes disconcerting record of conquests in the air and on the ground. It recounts the highs and lows of his war. From 1941 when, aged 21, he hunted the Hun over the English Channel and experienced the perils of aerial combat and the hazards of wartime romance. To 1943 when, living in a 'swamp that pretends to be an airstrip' south of Darwin, the Japanese flew over so infrequently he was in danger of going troppo. Allen was killed over Darwin at the end of the war. His diary offers a poignant insight into the human cost of armed conflict. |
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