TO BURMA SKIES AND BEYOND
Written by Reginald Jordan
Published by Janus Publishing Co.
in 1995
ISBN: 1857561384
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TO BURMA SKIES AND BEYOND
Written by Reginald Jordan.
Stock no. 1831051
1st.
1995.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
An Airman's Story (Group Captain Reg (Lucky) Jordan DFC AFC). A stimulating and immensely absorbing story of an RAF officer's forty years in aviation. B/w photos. With a foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir John Aiken. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. vi and 302 pages. ISBN: 1857561384. SIGNED by the author with a gift annotation in ink to title page. Also includes a letter from the author. Boards and contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Part One - To Burma Skies
- To my Liberator Crew
- 1 Enthusiasm ad Luck
- 2 The RAD - Early Impressions
- 3 Pilot Training
- 4 Bomber Operations
- 5 Recuperation
- 6 After Hiroshima
- 7 A Hobby Takes Over
- Part Two - More a Way of Life
- 8 Re-enlistment
- 9 Flying Instructor
- 10 All-Weather Fighters
- 11 Radar Station
- 12 Examining Duties
- 13 Intelligence Staff
- 14 Flying Station
- 15 Air Staff Planning
- Part Three - Tailpiece
- 16 The Aircraft Industry
- Appendix A Personal Record of RAF Service
- Appendix B Aircraft Flown
- Appendix C Abbreviations and Special Terms
- Index