Dilip Sarkar - Baders Big Wing Controversy : Duxford 1940

DUXFORD 1940

DILIP SARKAR

MBE FRHistS

BADERS BIG WING CONTROVERSY

Duxford 1940

First published in Great Britain in 2021 by

Air World

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Yorkshire Philadelphia

Copyright Dilip Sarkar, 2021

ISBN 9781399017152

eISBN 9781399017169

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The aviation-minded reader will notice that I have referred to German Messerschmitt fighters by the abbreviation Me (not Bf, which is more technically correct), or simply by their numeric designation, such as 109 or 110. This not only reads better but is authentic: during the Battle of Britain, Keith Lawrence, a New Zealander, flew Spitfires and once said to me To us they were just Mes, 109s or 110s, simple, never Bf .

In another attempt to preserve accuracy, I have also used the original German, wherever possible, regarding terms associated with the Luftwaffe, such as: