Furies and Fireflies over Korea
(2008)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Grub Street Publishing, 2008
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (192 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781909166417 MWT13961397, 1909166413 13961397
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The historian and author details the exploits of British and Australian pilots during the Korean War. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the UN Security Council called on its members to act and 16 nations did, with Britain sending aircraft carriers such as HMS Truimph, from which piston-engined Sea Fury fighters and Fairey Firefly fighter-bombers operated. This is the story of the British and Australian Fleet Air Arm pilots and their missions over hostile territory, missions carried out with distinction and honor
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