Johnnie Johnson`s Great Adventure: The Spitfire Ace of Ace`s Last Look Back 9781526791740

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Автор: Sarkar Mbe Dilip
Название: Johnnie Johnson`s Great Adventure: The Spitfire Ace of Ace`s Last Look Back
ISBN: 9781526791740
Издательство: Pen and Sword Aviation
Классификация:

Вторая мировая война

Военно-воздушные силы и военные действия

ISBN-10: 1526791749
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.56 кг.
Дата издания: 30.12.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 236 x 163 x 28
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Air Vice-Marshal Johnnie Johnson - a policemans son from Leicestershire - ended the Second World War as the RAFs top-scoring fighter pilot. Fearless, and an exceptional pilot and marksman, Johnnie was also highly intelligent and a gifted writer.

Having published two of his own books, Wing Leader and The Circle of Air Fighting, during the 1980s and 1990s, Johnnie co-authored several more with another fighter ace, namely Wing Commander P.B. Laddie Lucas. In 1997, the AVM suggested to his friend, the prolific author Dilip Sarkar, that the pair should collaborate on The Great Adventure - a book that would, in effect, be Johnnies account of the Long Trek from Normandy across Northern Europe into the heart of the Third Reich itself.

Greycap Leader was to produce a draft, after which Dilip would add the historical detail and comment. Sadly, the project was unfulfilled, because Johnnie became ill and passed away, aged eighty-five, in 2001. Years later, Johnnies eldest son, Chris, discovered the manuscript among his august fathers papers. In order to keep Johnnies memory evergreen, Chris turned to Dilip to finally see the project through to its conclusion.

In this book Johnnie re-visits certain aspects of his wartime service, including the development of tactical air cooperation with ground forces; his time as a Canadian wing leader in 1943, when the Spitfire Mk.IX at last outclassed the Fw 190; and details his involvement in some of the most important battles of the defeat of Nazi Germany, including Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings in 1944, Operation Market Garden and the airborne assault at Arnhem, and the Rhine Crossings, throughout all of which Johnnie also commanded Canadian wings. Here, then, we have The Great Adventure - Greycap Leaders previously unpublished last look back.

Johnnie Johnson`s Great Adventure: The Spitfire Ace of Ace`s Last Look Back, Sarkar Mbe Dilip