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" An Expendable Squadron : "
Roy Conyers Nesbit
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BL
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733111
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b552906
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Roy Conyers Nesbit
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An Expendable Squadron : : the Story of 217 Squadron, Coastal Command, 1939-1945.\ Roy Conyers Nesbit
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Havertown: Pen and Sword, 2014
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(258 pages)
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1473839335
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: 9781473839335
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Problems of Training; Chapter 2: South-Western Approaches; Chapter 3: Operational Beginnings; Chapter 4: The German Battlecruisers; Chapter 5: Bombing, Mining, Patrolling and on Standby; Chapter 6: French Ports Under Occupation; Chapter 7: New Beauforts and New Stations; Chapter 8: The Last Three Years; Appendix A: Junkers Ju 88 at RAF Chivenor; Appendix B: Kenneth Campbell's Victoria Cross; Appendix C: Beaufort Aircrews Association; Appendix D: Air-Laid Mines and U-boats: Coastal Waters of Western France. Appendix E: Air-Laid Mines and Enemy Surface Vessels: Coastal Waters of Western FranceAppendix F: St Eval Church ; Appendix G: Memorial at Westminster Abbey; Appendix H: Roll of Honour No 217 Squadron; Bibliography; Index.
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Roy Nesbit's highly illustrated history of Coastal Command's 217 Squadron - the squadron in which he served - gives a first-hand insight into the hazardous low-level missions the squadron flew against enemy shipping and ports during the Second World War. He chronicles the squadron's operations from the outbreak of war when it patrolled in Avro Ansons over the Western Approaches to the English Channel. Then came the most intense period of its wartime career when, flying Beauforts, it concentrated on minelaying and attacks on shipping along the west coast of German-occupied France. It also mount.
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D786.R693 2014
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