Beginning with the development of balloons, dirigibles and armed aircraft, the author portrays the uses of aircraft in World War I, on the Western Front and in the Middle East. Faith in Zeppelins was shattered by accidents and led to the improvement of bi-planes and heavy bombers in the 1920s and 1930s and to increasingly professional training. The work of the RAF in World War II, including photographic reconnaissance, air-sea rescue and transport of vital supplies as well as fighting and bombing, is recorded in a range of photographs, drawings, paintings and emphera. Post-war, the reader witnesses the RAF's role in NATO, the development of more sophisticated aircraft and training and its contribution to victory in the Falklands. A final discussion of the RAF in the 1990s brings the book up to date.

An Illustrated History of the Royal Air Force

History

Nesbit, Roy Conyers

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Military Press, 1990

The story of RAF's lesser-known squadrons that enforced the shipping blockade around Germany.

The Strike Wings: Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-1945

World

The Stationery Office/Tso

Woe to the unwary: A memoir of low level bombing operations, 1941

Kimber

Torpedo Airmen: Missions with Bristol Beauforts 1940-42

Torpedo airmen: Missions with Bristol Beauforts, 1940-42

W. Kimber

The strike wings: Special anti-shipping squadrons, 1942-1945

Military

For many decades a fascinating and sizeable archive of photographs, depicting the operational and ground activities of the RAF, has remained unrecorded and largely unseen in thousands of documents held at the Public Record Office at Kew. Other equally important images of the RAF can be found in the official archives of the Ministry of Defence in London. Together these two important collections cover a period from 1903, when the RAF's predecessors became interested in the possibilities of military aviation, through to the high-technology application of air power in the Gulf War of 1991. The RAF in Camera 1903-1939 is the first volume in a series which will bring a representative selection of these two collections to the notice of a wider audience. Many of the photographs are published here for the first time and give the reader a fascinating kaleidoscope of images depicting the nascent RAF and its subsequent growth into a world-class air arm in the course of the Second World War. Included in this first volume are images of man's early attempts to fly, the experiences of the First World War, operations during the interwar years in the far-flung corners of the Empire, and the desperate attempts to re-arm the RAF as the storm clouds of war gathered, heralding the outbreak of the Second World War.

The RAF in camera 1903-1939: Archive Photographs from the Public Record Office and the Ministry of Defence (Aviation)

Hoare, Oliver

Motorbooks Intl

The RAF in Camera 1946-1995 is the third volume in a series which will bring a representative selection of these two collections to the attention of a wider audience. Many of the photographs are published here for the first time and give the reader a fascinating kaleidoscope of images depicting the vast range of operations in which the RAF was involved from the end of the Second World War right up to the Gulf War. Included are the Berlin Airlift, the 'bush' wars in Kenya, Malaya and Indonesia, atom-bomb tests in Australia and the Pacific, the Korean, Falklands and Gulf Wars, and the Suez and Cyprus crises. Each of the 240 photographs, some taken in action, has been thoroughly researched and is accompanied by a detailed caption. This remarkable volume of illustrations will appeal not only to those with an interest in Royal Air Force, but also to anyone with an interest in the history of military aviation.

The RAF in Camera, 1946-1995

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Alan Sutton Publishing

Photo-reconnaissance has come a long way from its faltering beginnings over the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War, when unwieldy plate cameras were held over the cockpit sides of RFC BE2a biplanes. By the close of the Second World War, dedicated PR Spitfires could photograph Germany by day and Mosquitoes by day or night with considerable success from heights of up to 36,000 ft. With the quantum leap in digital, optical and mechanical technology of the past decade, the mid-1990s sees the RAF's Tornado GRIAs using video-tape for photo-recce, with a data link to relay pictures directly to interpreters on the ground, thus doing away with 'wet film'.Eyes of the RAF was written at the request of the Association of Royal Air Force Photography Officers, who made available their material and many photographs to the author. The book traces the development of these skills from the earliest days to the present and includes such conflicts as the Falklands War and the Gulf War. It is based on official and personal records and was written with the collaboration of numerous experts with detailed knowledge of this fascinating subject.Eye of the RAF contains over 400 photographs, which include many types of aerial cameras, all major types of photo-reconnaissance aircraft and many examples of photographs taken in action, together with detailed captions. It will appeal to past and present members of the RAF, Commonwealth and US Air Forces, as well as to those who have an interest in the history of the RAF in particular, and the history of military aviation in general.

Eyes of the Raf: A History of Photo-Reconnaissance

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Sutton Pub Ltd

The Raf in Camera 1903-1939: Archive Photographs from the Public Record Office and the Ministry of Defence

For many decades a fascinating and sizeable archive of photographs, depicting the operational and ground activities of the RAF, has remained unrecorded and largely unseen in thousands of documents held at the Public Record Office at Kew. Other equally important images of the RAF can be found in the official archives of the Ministry of Defence in London. Together these two important collections cover a period from 1903, when the RAF's predecessors became interested in the possibilities of military aviation, through to the high-technology application of air power in the Gulf War of 1991.Many of the photographs are published here for the first time and give the reader a fascinating kaleidoscope of images depicting the vast range of offensive, defensive and ground-based operations in which the RAF was involved during the Second World War.The RAF in Camera 1939-1945 contains over 240 photographs, many of which were taken in action. Each photograph has been thoroughly researched and is accompanied by a detailed caption. This volume will appeal not only to those with an interest in the Royal Air Force and the Second World War, but also to anyone with an interest in the history of military aviation.

The Raf in Camera 1939-1945: Archive Photographs from the Public Record Office and the Ministry of Defence

Great Britain. Public Record Office

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