HOLDING TO THE HEAVENS: THE HISTORY OF SIXTY SQUADRON RAF 1916-2016
Written by Paul Hickley
Published by Aviation History Press
in 2016
ISBN: 9781526201645
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HOLDING TO THE HEAVENS: THE HISTORY OF SIXTY SQUADRON RAF 1916-2016
Written by Paul Hickley.
Stock no. 1826597
1st.
2016.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Varied and interesting history of RAF Sixty Squadron. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 9781526201645. SIGNED and dated by the author to half-title page. Includes a letter from the author to Geoff Moores, also signed by the author. Top & tail of spine lightly rubbed. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faintly scuffed to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Great War: 1916-1918
- 2. India: 1919-1939
- 3. The Second World War: 1939-1948
- 4. Post-War South East Asia: 1945-1959
- 5. The Meteor and the Early Javelin Era: 1959-1963
- 6. Javelins and Confrontations: 1963-1965
- 7. Far East Sunset: 1966-1968
- 8. The Pembroke - Andover Era: 1969-1977
- 9. Operation Hallmark
- 10. The Pembroke - Andover Era: 1978-1992
- 11.Wind-down and transition: 1990-1992
- 12. The Wessex Years: 1992-1997
- 13. The Griffin and the Flying Training Role: 1997-2016 and beyond