Shackleton boys. Volume 1, True stories from the home-based 'Kipper Fleet' squadrons
Bond, Steve2018
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Essentially a development of the Avro Lancaster via the later Lincoln, the Avro Shackleton was the RAF's first line of defence in the maritime role from 1951 for twenty years, thereafter continuing to serve as an airborne early warning aircraft for another twenty, until 1991. The 'Old Grey Lady', the 'Growler', '20,000 rivets in loose formation', but mostly known simple as the 'Shack', it is viewed with great affection by those who flew and maintained it. All of the Boys' stories are from air and ground crew veterans themselves, and because there are so many vital and entertaining accounts, Steve Bond has divided his subject into two volumes. Consequently this volume covers UK-based units flying from Ballykelly (including Aldergrove), Farnborough, Honington, Kinloss, Lossiemouth, St Eval, and St Mawgan, plus many overseas detachments including Christmas Island and Majunga.
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Author:
Bond, Steve, author
Imprint:
London : Grub Street, 2018.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781911621126 (hbk)
Dewey class:
358.4283092241358.428309
LC class:
UG1245
Local class:
358.428358.4283
Language:
English
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BRN:
2308506
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