Fighter Pilots in World War II

True Stories of Frontline Air Combat

Bruce Barrymore Halpenny

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9781844150656
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783460120
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This is the story of Allied fighter pilots and the part they played in all the principal operational theatres of World War II. It also tells of life on the wartime airfield and how ground crew kept the aircraft ready for action either in the bitter cold of a Scottish winter or the sweltering heat of the North African desert. The book brings home the nervous strain caused by the constant readiness demanded by all those involved with fighter squadron combat and the intense comradeship created in each fighting unit.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Glossary
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• CHAPTER ONE - Fighter Airfields
• CHAPTER TWO - Operational Fighter Pilots
• CHAPTER THREE - Fighter Groundcrew
• CHAPTER FOUR - Armourer’s Duties
• CHAPTER FIVE - The Battle of Britain
• CHAPTER SIX - Going Sick
• CHAPTER SEVEN - ‘Grub Up’
• CHAPTER EIGHT - Off Duty
• CHAPTER NINE - A Fighter Squadron is Born
• CHAPTER TEN - Four Months’ Operational Service
• CHAPTER ELEVEN - A Canadian on a Fighter Station
• CHAPTER TWELVE - The Hurri-bomber
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN - They Shot Down the First Mistel
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Hurricane IId ‘Tankbuster’
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN - The Doodlebugs
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Typhoon Pilot
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - ‘Flying Desert Rats’
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Desert Airfield
• CHAPTER NINETEEN - Mohawk Fighter Squadrons
• CHAPTER TWENTY - Fighter Command’s only VC
• Index