Название: Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940–1941
Автор: Mike Bechthold
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
Год: 2017
Формат: pdf/epub (conv.)
Страниц: 296
Размер: 11 Mb
Язык: English
Canadian-born flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893–1976) served in Britain’s air forces for twenty-eight years. As a pilot in World War I he was credited with sixty-one confirmed kills on the Western Front. When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a Royal Air Force group in Egypt. It was in Egypt and Libya in 1940–41, during the Britain’s Western Desert campaign, that he demonstrated the tenets of an effective air-ground cooperation system. Flying to Victory examines Raymond Collishaw’s contribution to the British system of tactical air support—a pattern of operations that eventually became standard in the Allied air forces and proved to be a key factor in the Allied victory.