Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two – Spearhead of Victory. Patrick Bishop
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Cover image: RAF bomber pilots return home from a successful mission (Photo © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Source ISBN: 9780007433155
Ebook Edition © September 2017 ISBN: 9780007433162
Version: 2018-05-29
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Contents
5 ‘There’s Something in the Air’
11 ‘Eat, Drink and Be Merry …’
12 ‘Britain’s Best Advertisement’
Epilogue: Brothers and Sisters
Fighter Command’s area of operations 1940
Main Bomber Command stations in the UK
The Mediterranean, Levant and Southern Europe, showing the Takoradi Route
Normandy and North-West Europe