Spitfires in Japan: From Farnborough to the Far East
'Boy' Bouchier, who died in 1979, was both a remarkable 'soldier's soldier' and a 'diplomat's diplomat', combining battlefield courage and endurance with great leadership skills and a keen understanding of human nature. This long-awaited memoir has been skilfu...
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Place / Publishing House: | [Place of publication not identified] : Global Oriental, 2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :; illustrations |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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505 | 0 | |a Editor's Introduction and Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Southsea - 1902; 2 Making One's Way in the World; 3 Articled Pupil; 4 The King's Shilling; 5 Soldiering in Egypt; 6 Palestine; 7 Wings; 8 Flying Instructor; 9 Torpedoed; 10 Roses in Picardy; 11 Fools Rush In; 12 Left Holding the Baby; 13 Retreat From Russia; 14 The Call of the East; 15 Test Pilot, Farnborough; 16 No. 41 Fighter Squadron; 17 Test Pilot, Aboukir; 18 RAF Staff College; 19 India; 20 Birth of the Royal Indian Air Force; 21 No. 54 Fighter Squadron; 22 No. 11 Fighter Group; 23 Hornchurch - 1940; 24 The Battle of Britain; 25 A King's Favour; 26 The Leigh-Mallory/Park Controversy; 27 I return to 11 Group; 28 Air Ministry; 29 SASO 11 Fighter Group; 30 Normandy; 31 Acting AOC 11 Group; 32 AOC 221 Fighter Group, Burma; 33 Japan - The Occupation; 34 A Touch of Retirement; 35 MacArthur and the Korean War; 36 'I Like Bouchier's Stuff' - A Day with Winston Churchill; 37 St Clement Danes; Bibliography; Index. | |
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