Monographie

RAF transport command : a pictorial history / Keith Wilson

Type de contenu

• Texte

Type de médiation

• sans médiation

Type de support

• Volume

Titre(s)

• RAF transport command : a pictorial history / Keith Wilson

Auteur(s)

• Wilson, Keith (19..-....) photographe

Publication

• Stroud : Amberley, 2017

Description matérielle

• 1 vol. (95 p.) : ill., carte ; 24 cm

ISBN

• 978-1-4456-6598-6
• 1-4456-6598-0

EAN

• 9781445665986 br.

Classification décimale Dewey

• 358.440 941

Note sur les bibliographies et les index

• Bibliogr. p. [96]

Résumé ou extrait

• "When RAF Transport Command was created in March 1943, it was formed by the renaming of Ferry Command. The delivery of aircraft from manufacturers to operational units had been ongoing since the start of the Second World War; but was significantly intensified by the supply of American machines flown across the Atlantic from 1940. Later, Transport Command took over the role of dropping paratroops. It even undertook the ferrying of mail from the UK to troops fighting across Europe, using specially modified Spitfires and Hurricanes for the role. After 1945 and the conclusion of the Second World War, Transport Command grew considerably in size. In 1948, it was at the forefront of the Berlin Airlift. It would later serve the RAF particularly well during the Suez Crisis, the Malayan Emergency, and the nuclear trial on Christmas Island. This book covers a pictorial history of Transport Command operations from 1943 through to 1967, when RAF Transport Command was renamed Support Command." (4e de couv.)

Sujet - Collectivité

• Grande-Bretagne Royal Air Force. Transport Command. -- Histoire

Sujet - Nom commun

• Transports aériens militaires -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire

Forme, genre ou caractéristiques physiques

• Ouvrages illustrés

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