Invasion Airfields Then and Now Tapa dura - 2017

After the Battle . Very Good. 1870067916. 2017, bright clean copy, with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 2017. Hardcover.

Old Harlow: Battle of Britain International, 2017. In his 1945 report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the success of Operation ‘Overlord’, the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower wrote that "on the morning of June 9 I was able to announce that for the first time since 1940, Allied air forces were operating from France, and that within three weeks of D-Day, 31 Allied squadrons were operating from the ­beach-head bases. In their forecasts for the first three months following D-Day, the planners plotted the number of the advanced landing grounds that would be required in Normandy to support the Allied air forces up to September 1944. Using maps and aerial photographs, individual sites were surveyed and plans drawn up so that when each location was captured, either US Aviation Engineers, the Royal Engineers or RAF Airfield Construction Wings, could move in without delay to begin work to build them. This book tells the story of every airfield that became operational by D+90,… Leer más

Old Harlow: Battle of Britain International, 2017. In his 1945 report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the success of Operation ‘Overlord’, the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower wrote that "on the morning of June 9 I was able to announce that for the first time since 1940, Allied air forces were operating from France, and that within three weeks of D-Day, 31 Allied squadrons were operating from the ­beach-head bases. In their forecasts for the first three months following D-Day, the planners plotted the number of the advanced landing grounds that would be required in Normandy to support the Allied air forces up to September 1944. Using maps and aerial photographs, individual sites were surveyed and plans drawn up so that when each location was captured, either US Aviation Engineers, the Royal Engineers or RAF Airfield Construction Wings, could move in without delay to begin work to build them. This book tells the story of every airfield that became operational by D+90,… Leer más

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book tells the story of every airfield that became operational by D+90, explaining the methods used to construct them and the units that flew from them.

After the Battle, 2017. Hardcover. New. 224 pages. 11.73x8.35x0.87 inches.