Steve Bond Shackleton Boys (Relié)

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Titre: Shackleton Boys
Condition: Neuf
Sous titres: Volume 1: True Stories from the Home-Based ‘Kipper Fleet’ Squadrons
Auteur: Steve Bond
Format: Relié
EAN: 9781911621126
ISBN: 9781911621126
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
Genre: Law & Politics
Sujet: Military History, History
Année de publication: 2018
Date de publication: 2018-08-30
Description:

Essentially a development of the Avro Lancaster via the later Lincoln, the Avro Shackleton was the RAF’s first line of defence in the maritime role from 1951 for twenty years, thereafter continuing to serve as an airborne early warning aircraft for another twenty, until 1991. The ‘Old Grey Lady’, the ‘Growler’, ‘20,000 rivets in loose formation’, but mostly known simply as the ‘Shack’, it is viewed with great affection by those who flew and maintained it. In addition to its traditional sub-hunting role, it was also used extensively for search and rescue operations, and even as a conventional bomber in the Aden theatre. Operating around the world with squadrons based in the UK, the Mediterranean, Middle East and Far East, ‘Shacks’ were also used to support the blockade of oil supplies to Rhodesia during the UDI crisis in the ’60s and ’70s, and searching for gun-running boats during the Indonesian Confrontation.
All of the Boys’ stories are from air and ground crew veterans themselves, and because there are so many vital and entertaining accounts, Steve Bond has divided his subject into two volumes.
Consequently this volume will cover UK-based units flying from Ballykelly (including Aldergrove), Farnborough, Honington, Kinloss, Lossiemouth, St Eval and St Mawgan, plus many overseas detachments including Christmas Island and Majunga. To complement the detailed personal accounts and anecdotes are hundreds of original photographs and extensive appendices. A feast for any ‘Shack’ or military aviation aficionado.
Volume Two (coming in 2019) will cover those units based overseas at Changi, Gan, Gibraltar, Khormaksar, Luqa (and Hal Far), and Sharjah, plus the South African Air Force operations from Ysterplaat/Malan.


Sujet: Anglais
Pays/Région de fabrication: GB
Item Height: 234
Item Length: 156.00

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  • Condition: Neuf
  • Title: Shackleton Boys
  • Titre: Shackleton Boys
  • Sous titres: Volume 1: True Stories from the Home-Based ‘Kipper Fleet’ Squadro
  • Auteur: Steve Bond
  • Format: Relié
  • EAN: 9781911621126
  • ISBN: 9781911621126
  • Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
  • Genre: Law & Politics
  • Sujet: Anglais
  • Année de publication: 2018
  • Date de publication: 2018-08-30
  • Pays/Région de fabrication: GB
  • Item Height: 234
  • Item Length: 156.00

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