NORFOLK AIRFIELDS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

UK,small 8vo softback/paperback Original,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/ title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn, but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but softback/paperback originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover and NO reading creases to the spine/backstrip - unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,glossy,colour pictorial artwork (a Mosquito taking off from a Norfolk airfield in the summer of 1944,reproduced from an original painting by Colin Doggett) illustrated front cover with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and NO reading creases to spine /backstrip,some inevitable but minimal,superficial scoring to either card cover.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,small 8vo wraps,p/back original,1st edn,7-288pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters/sections,profuse mixture of contemporary and modern b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,b/w line illustration chapter headpieces,b/w maps (2),a biblography and an index; plus [unpaginated] title page,a contents list/table and 2 b/w maps (Norfolk airfields and European targets).
An American pilot serving in Norfolk during the Second World War commented,'I guess if you just switch off and glide you're more likely to have gotten on an airfield than in any other place'.
Norfolk's geography did mean that it became home to no less than 37 airfields by the end of the war.These,and the airmen who flew from them,made an immense contribution both to the defence of England and later,more significantly,to the air war in Europe as the allied airforces flew increasingly large concentrations of bombers into the smoke-filled skies over Germany.
This book describes the history of each airfield - RAF or USAAF - and highlights the major wartime operations and the many and varied aircraft the comprised the operational squadrons - numbered among these are the Blenheim,Boston,Spitfire,Hurricane,Wellington,Stirling, Lancaster,Liberator and Flying Fortress.
The effects of the war on the daily lives of the people of Norfolk and the dangers they endured,including the 'Baedeker' raids on Norwich in April 1942,are also detailed.
Graham Smith's action-packed book will appeal equally to aviation enthusiasts and to readers who recall the era when skies over Norfolk never ceased to throb with the drone of departing or returning aircraft.
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