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Beaufighter Over The Balkans – From the Balkans Air Force to the Berlin Airlift

SECOND HAND BOOK CONDITION: Very Good

AUTHOR –  Steve Stevens DFC
PUBLISHER – Pen & Sword
FORMAT – Softback
PAGES – 204
PUBLISHED – 2006
ISBN – 978 1 84415 610 8

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Category: Product ID: 21942

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Signed by the author, Steve Stevens DFC.
This is the wartime autobiography of one of South Africa’s most famous pilots. Steve joined the SAAAF at the outset of World War II with the desire to become a fighter pilot and to fly in Europe to destroy the Nazi’s ambitions of power. However, he was too good a pilot and having gained his wings was posted to become a flying instructor in his native country. After two years he finally arrived in Europe and joined the RAF’s Balkan Air Force flying rocket-firing Beaufighters in support of the partisans who were endeavouring to evict the Germans from their homelands. He joined No 19 Squadron under the command of the legendary Don Tilley and flew many missions against enemy shipping, gun emplacements and tactical targets in low-level, surprise rocket attacks. After the war he returned to Africa, flying light aircraft in a variety of roles, but when Berlin was blockaded by the USSR he returned to fly DC-3 Dakotas throughout the Berlin Airlift. This is a story told with a compassion that belies the author’s bravery and piloting skills. Throughout the story, his strong Christian belief, as with Leonard Cheshire VC, occasionally surfaces from the heat of battle and narrow escapes from death.

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