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249 at Malta : RAF's top-scoring fighter squadron / Brian Cull and Frederick Galea.
- Title
- 249 at Malta : RAF's top-scoring fighter squadron / Brian Cull and Frederick Galea.
- Author
- Cull, Brian
- Publication
- United Kingdom ; United States : Fonthill, 2017.
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Details
- Description
- 224 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- By the end of 1941, following its participation in the Battle of Britain, 249 was posted to Malta. Having been informed that its pilots would be required to fly from the deck of an aircraft carrier, intensive practice flights took place with two Hurricanes fitted with long-range tanks, making shortened take-off runs from an airfield runway. And that was that. The following month, having been ferried to Gibraltar, the aircraft were off-loaded on to the Ark Royal and all 20 safely reached Malta. This was the beginning of 249's Mediterranean adventure in the defense of Malta. Spitfires would follow early in 1942, and by the time it moved to a new theater of operations, 249 had claimed 245 air victories in the skies over Malta, producing many ace pilots such as 'Screwball' Beurling, Laddie Lucas, Johnny Plagis, John Lynch, to name but a few.
- Subjects
- Malta
- Military campaigns
- Military operations, Aerial > British
- Siege of Malta (1940-1943)
- History
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Malta
- Great Britain > Royal Air Force > Squadron, 249 > History
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, British
- Malta > History > Siege, 1940-1943
- 1939-1945
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1488
- ISBN
- 9781781555545
- 1781555540
- OCLC
- 1012703612
- Author
- Cull, Brian, author.
- Title
- 249 at Malta : RAF's top-scoring fighter squadron / Brian Cull and Frederick Galea.
- Publisher
- United Kingdom ; United States : Fonthill, 2017.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1488