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249 at Malta

249 at Malta

Raf'S Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron

by Brian Cull
Hardback
Publication Date: 22/10/2016
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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 defence of Malta. Spitfires would follow early in 1942 and by the time it moved to a new theatre 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.
ISBN:
9781781555545
9781781555545
Category:
Second World War
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
22-10-2016
Publisher:
Fonthill Media Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x26mm
Weight:
0.59kg
Brian Cull

Brian Cull has been writing Second World War aviation history for the past twenty-five years and has in excess of twenty-five titles to his credit, many of which have been highly acclaimed. These include the `Bloody Shambles' series, `Hurricanes over Malta', `Spitfires over Malta', `Twelve Days in May', `Diver! Diver! Diver!', `Gladiator Ace', `Screwball Beurling'; while `Fighters over the Aegean', `First of the Few' and `Blenheims over Greece and Crete' are a series of books for Fonthill Media.

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