Wings of the Morning

[Dave Homewood]

Does anyone out there happen to have a copy of "Wings of the morning : the story of the Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War" by Ian Cameron?

This book was I believe written by a New Zealander who flew in the Fleet Air Arm himself, who also wrote a couple of fiction books on the Fleet Air Arm, but this one is factual.

I was shown it about 18 months back by a WWII FAA veteran and since then have been trying to find a copy as it looked really good. Each chapter detailed different chapters in the FAA history in WWII. One chapter was on no. 826 Squadron and its sister-squadron in Egypt who pioneered the pathfinding flare drop methods later adopted by Bomber Command. The veteran who had the book was one of those pilots.

I'd love to read the whole book through. It seems to be rare as hen's teeth so i might have to resort to ordering in the National Library's copy.

[shamus]

Am sure I have a copy of it boxed away somewhere. Will look it out. House in a mess at the moment due to major building work and lots of stuff in boxes stored somewhere.

[shorty]

Hodder and Stoughton London, 1962. 1st edn.,288pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., 2 maps and 2 diagrams in text, light blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of many of the operations of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during WW2 including Norway, the Mediterranean including Taranto, convoy 'Tiger' to Alexandria, and operations in the Western Desert, the Tripitz, Bismarck and the escape of Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, the Battle of the Atlantic incl. Audacity and HG76 and Archer and HX239, the Arctic convoys JW and RA64, the Far East and Palembang, Kamikaze's and the neutralising of the Nansei Shoto airstrips, with appendices including aircraft types and specs. and lists of the names of aircrews in some specific operations

41 copies listed on AbeBooks

[shamus]

Found it, Dave.

[Dave Homewood]

Great. Would be great if I can take a look when i come to see you next week. Cheers!

[shamus]

No problem Dave, you are welcome to borrow it as long as I get it back. See you on the 10th.

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks! See you then.