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Sea flight : the wartime memoirs of a Fleet Air Arm pilot / Hugh Popham ; new introduction by David Hobbs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Popham, Hugh, author.
- Hobbs, David, author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popham, Hugh.
- Great Britain. Royal Navy. Fleet Air Arm.
- Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- South Yorkshire, England : Seaforth Publishing, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hugh Popham joined the Fleet Air Arm in the summer of 1940 and was soon in training as a pilot at HMS Vincent and then Yeovilton; thereafter his wartime career as a naval pilot took him to the far corners of the world, notably to the Indian Ocean where he had to contend against the Japanese. His story is one of a naval fighter pilot having to do his best with hopelessly inadequate planes. First the Sea Hurricanes, and then the Supermarine Seafires, proved to be less than brilliant machines, the Seafire proving far too fragile for the rigours of carrier operations. But it is this story, incorpo
- Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; New Introduction; PART ONE: The Making of a Pilot; PART Two: Sea-time-H.M.S. Indomitable; Interlude: Asylum; PART THREE: Sea-time-H.M.S. Illustrious, Campania and Striker; Conclusion: Afterthoughts
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9781473849372
- 1473849373
- 9781473849716
- 1473849713
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