Graham Pitchfork - The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three
Here you can read online Graham Pitchfork - The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2020, publisher: Grub Street, genre: Detective and thriller. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Romance novel
Science fiction
Adventure
Detective
Science
History
Home and family
Prose
Art
Politics
Computer
Non-fiction
Religion
Business
Children
Humor
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
- Book:The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three
- Author:
- Publisher:Grub Street
- Genre:
- Year:2020
- Rating:5 / 5
- Favourites:Add to favourites
- Your mark:
The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
Twelve years since The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Two was published, Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork has compiled eighty-five obituaries of outstanding aviators. With a focus on personnel from a range of air forces, including the RAF, USAF, RCAF, RNZAF and SAAF, there are a number of fascinating and distinguishable lives to read about. Those featured include MRAF Sir Michael Beetham, the longest-serving Chief of Air Staff in the RAF (apart from its founder Lord Trenchard); Brigadier General Paul Tibbets who commanded the USAAF bomber Enola Gay, which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and Wing Commander Dal Russel, a highly decorated wartime Canadian fighter pilot, whose logbook recorded kills in the Battle of Britain and the Normandy invasion. There is also Lettice Curtis, the first woman qualified to fly a four-engine bomber and who by the end of the Second World War had flown over 400 heavy bombers, 150 Mosquitos and hundreds of Hurricanes and Spitfires as part of her role in the Air Transport Auxiliary. The book includes a foreword written by former Chief of Air Staff, Sir Richard Johns.
Graham Pitchfork: author's other books
Who wrote The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Graham Pitchfork
Pitchfork
Morgan-Witts Max
Pitchfork
Donahue Arthur Gerald
Graham Simons
The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Light
Font size:
↓
↑
Reset
Interval:
↓
↑
Bookmark:
Make
The Daily Telegraph
A IRMENS
O BITUARIES
BOOK THREE
The Daily Telegraph
AIRMENS
OBITUARIES
BOOK THREE
Compiled and Edited by
AIR COMMODORE GRAHAM PITCHFORK MBE, BA, FRAeS
Foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns GCB, KCVO, CBE, FRAeS
GRUB STREET LONDON
Published by
Grub Street
4 Rainham Close
London SW11 6SS
Copyright 2020 Grub Street Publishing Limited
Copyright text 2020 Telegraph Media Group Limited
A CIP record for this title is available from the British library
ISBN-13: 978-1-911621-92-8
eISBN-13: 978-1-911667-52-0
Mobi ISBN-13: 978-1-911667-52-0
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.
Design by Lucy Thorne
FOREWORD
Since retiring from the Royal Air Force in 1995 Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork has established an enviable reputation as a chronicler of RAF history. He is the author of 14 books, most notably The Royal Air Force Day by Day, which was specially commissioned by the Chief of the Air Staff to record the RAFs first 100 years of service to the nation.
As an extension of his authorship Graham Pitchfork has been the aviation obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph. Since 2003, 610 of his obituaries have been published from which he has selected 91 for publication in this third book of airmens obituaries; they cover the period from 2007 to the end of 2017.
The obits paint vivid pictures of the men and women who contributed so much to the development and employment of our national air power during times of war and peace. As may be expected the majority served with professional distinction and great courage during the Second World War and subsequent conflicts. While fighter and bomber pilots are in the majority, others involved in less dazzling activities such as maritime and transport operations, including the ladies of the Air Transport Auxiliary, receive public recognition so richly deserved.
But this is not to the omission of other specialists such as those involved in aviation medicine whose work was vital to ensure air crews could accommodate ever-increasing physical demands of rapidly advancing aircraft performance particularly the challenge of G loading and high altitude flying.
The rank and file of the RAF was truly cosmopolitan as evidenced by the vengeful young men from the occupied countries of Europe who continued their fight from the UK. And there they were joined by many others from the dominions and North America who enlisted in the RAF long before the United States entered the global conflict. The obituaries in this volume pay fulsome tribute to the heroic scale of their contributions to eventual victory.
Today, common knowledge of RAF history in the Second World War goes no further than the Battle of Britain and the bomber offensive with occasional acknowledgement of Coastal Commands activities during the Battle of the Atlantic. The obituaries in this volume thus merit detailed study to inform understanding of the sheer scale and imaginative variety of RAF operations conducted from the ground as well as from the air. Moreover while pilots enjoy the lions share of plaudits, it is pleasing to read about the honing of navigational skills by some quite exceptional airmen who relied principally on the accuracy of their dead reckoning and exceptional map-reading skills; and all of this long before technology was to guarantee the accuracy that today we take for granted.
It was my good fortune to serve under command of some of those whose deeds of valour are recorded in this book. By far the majority were the products of grammar schools and technical colleges who were to thrive within a service that was, and remains, a true meritocracy. Not surprising perhaps that so many were to enjoy successful second careers in a wide variety of employment that took them comfortably into old age and eventual retirement.
I have resisted the temptation to try to name names in this foreword with attribution of aeronautical achievements to individuals. Its simply impossible to judge objectively their comparative value and it is for this reason that the book offers the reader many surprises that merit consideration and admiration in equal measure. Graham Pitchforks industry in compiling each and every one of the obituaries most certainly merits our congratulations and thanks.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns GCB, KCVO, CBE, FRAeS
INTRODUCTION
Since the publication of Book Two in 2007 of The Daily Telegraph Book of Airmens Obituaries, a further 476 airmens obituaries have been published in the newspaper. This presented me with an extremely difficult task to select about 90 for inclusion in this volume. To ease the task slightly, I decided to limit the choice to those published before the end of 2017. Nevertheless, this left me with a very wide choice and many that I would dearly loved to have included have had to be left out.
It was important to have variety and to include as many aspects of the aviation world as possible. As might be expected, the majority outline the remarkable lives of those involved in the Second World War including those of our Commonwealth and Allies who answered the call. As that patriotic generation fades away, inevitably there is an increasing number of those who took part in later conflicts. As a former RAF officer, I am very conscious of the crucial roles played by men and women of the non-flying branches, and of those in other sectors of aviation, and a selection of them deserve their place in this collection.
In preparing the obituaries I have received a great deal of assistance from many people. Without the help of Sebastian Cox and his superb staff at the Air Historical Branch, of Susan Dransfield and Tim Pierce at the RAF College Cranwell, and friends from the RAF Historical Society, my task would have been immensely difficult.
The staff of the Daily Telegraph obituaries desk have been patient, have given me wise advice and encouragement they have also become great friends and I want particularly to thank the current team of Andrew Brown, Katharine Ramsay and Chris Maume. Amongst their predecessors, Harry de Quet- teville, Jay Iliff and David Twiston-Davies guided me through the early days of my time. I also want to thank Michael Stenz for paving the way for this edition to be published.
Relatives of those included have provided the majority of the photographs that appear in the text. Where I struggled, Lee Barton of the RAF Air Historical Branch came to my rescue. I am also grateful to the British Airways Heritage Collection for the photograph of Barbara Harmer and to the United States Air Force Historical Research Agency for the photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Archer.
Finally, my thanks goes to Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns, whose dynamic leadership of the RAF I witnessed at first hand, for his eloquent foreword and to John Davies and his superb staff at Grub Street.
Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork MBE, BA, FRAeS
GROUP CAPTAIN PETER NORTON-SMITH
Group Captain Peter Norton-Smith (who died on May 18, 2007 aged 91) carried out a spectacular air evacuation of British families during riots in Burma in 1949.
Light
Font size:
↓
↑
Reset
Interval:
↓
↑
Bookmark:
Make
Similar books «The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three»
Look at similar books to The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Pitchfork
Morgan-Witts Max
Pitchfork
Donahue Arthur Gerald
Graham Simons
Reviews about «The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three»
Discussion, reviews of the book The Daily Telegraph Airmens Obituaries Book Three and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.