Royal Air Force 1939-1945
Volume 2: The Fight Avails
By Dennis Richards and Hilary St. George Saunders
1954
Of this Volume Chapters 5 to 12 were written by Dennis Richards and Chapters 1 to 4 and 13 to 16 by Hilary St. George Saunders
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Table of Contents
Chapter 2: The Fall of Singapore
Chapter 7: Bomber Command and the Assault on Germany
Chapter 9: Middle East: CRUSADER
Chapter 10: Middle East: The Crisis of 1942
Chapter 11: Middle East: The Alamein Line and Decisive Victory
Chapter 13: Casablanca and the Ruhr
Chapter 14: Now These Things Befell in Sicily
Chapter 15: The Fight at Salerno
Appendices
Appendix 1: Members of the Air Council, 1942-1943
Appendix 2: Principal Air Commanders, 1942-1943
Appendix 3: Royal Air Force Command Organization, March, 1943
Appendix 5: Principal Operational Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1942-1943
Appendix 6: Principal Operational Aircraft of the German Air Force, 1942-1943
Appendix 7: Principal Operational Aircraft of the Japanese Air Force, 1942-1943
Appendix 8: Order of Battle, Coastal Command, 15th February, 1943
Appendix 9: Order of Battle, Bomber Command, 4th March, 1943
Appendix 10: Order of Battle, Middle East Command, 11th November, 1941
Appendix 11: Order of Battle, Middle East Command, 27th October, 1942
Appendix 12: Order of Battle, Mediterranean Air Command, 10th July 1943
Appendix 13: Glossary of Code Names and Abbreviations
Maps and Diagrams
Malay Peninsula. Location of RAF Units, 8 December 1941
The Campaign in Malaya, 7 December-15 February 1942
The Campaign in Java and Sumatra, February-March 1942
The Japanese Advance through Burma, January-May 1942
Japanese Operations off Southern India, April 1942
The Battle of the Atlantic (IV), January-July 1942
The Battle of the Atlantic (V), August 1942-May 1943
Cyrenaica and the Western Desert, 1941
Rommel’s Plan of Attack, May 1942
The Malta Convoys, 14-16 June 1942 (Operations Harpoon and Vigorous)
The Position at El Alamein, 23 October 1942
Air Action against Enemy Sea Communications in the Mediterranean, 7 September-3 November 1942
Operation Torch, November 1942
The Tunisian Campaign, 19 March-13 May 1943
Principal Targets Attacked by Bomber Command, 1942-1943
The Invasion of Sicily, 10 July-17 August 1943
The Invasion of Italy, 3-16 September 1943
Operations in the Aegean, 9 September-22 October 1943
The Italian Front, September 1943-June 1944
Plates
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Air Vice-Marshal A. Coningham—HMS Prince of Wales at Singapore—Vildebeest IV Torpedo-Bomber—A Sunderland Keeps Guard—Low-Level Attack on U-boat—Before and After—The 1000-Bomber Raid on Cologne—Souvenir of a Low-Level Flight to the Arc de Triomphe—Reconnaissance Photograph of Dieppe—Three of the Victorious Air Team in the Middle East—Axis Shipping at Tripoli Wrecked by British Bombing, January 1942—Valetta, May 1942—Uncrating an Aircraft at Takoradi—A Salvage Convoy nearing Cairo—Axis Shipping at Benghazi Wrecked by British Bombing—Gibraltar—Italian Aircraft at Castel Benito, March 1943—A Famous Visit—Mr. Churchill and General Montgomery—U-boat Pens at Brest—Before and After—The Möhne Dam—Wing Commander Guy Gibson—After the Allied Attacks at Cassino: The Monastery—After the Allied Attacks at Cassino: The Town