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The scenes are familiar ones; the young Brylcream Boys sat at dispersal waiting for the haunting call of Scramble, lounging in their shirt sleeves and fur-lined boots, their leather flying helmets lying limp by their side. But what did the RAF fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain really wear, and what vital items would their kitbags have held?
The casual air of the dashing pilots of Fighter Command in the Spitfire Summer of 1940 conceals a necessarily...
2) Royal Flying Corps Kitbag: Aircrew Uniforms & Equipment from the War Over the Western Front in WWI
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A complete guide to the WWI uniforms and equipment of RFC pilots and airmen-fully illustrated with color photos.
When the First World War began in 1914, the newly formed Royal Flying Corps was put to the ultimate test. As the Great War raged, the developments in military aviation were profound, not only in terms of aerial warfare, but also-as this book reveals, in the uniforms and equipment the aircrew used.
All the objects that a Royal Flying...
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Reichsmarschall Gring told Hitler that it would take less than a month for his much-vaunted Luftwaffe to conquer the RAF and pave the way for the German invasion of Great Britain. His prediction was to prove disastrously wrong, but for four long months his pilots and aircrew fought for their lives in the skies above the UK.From their bases in continental Europe, the Luftwaffes fighter pilots escorted the great bomber fleets that sought to destroy...
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