Description

Volume 5 of this definitive record of the losses of aircraft and crews in RAF squadron service covers the period 1st January 1931 to 31st January 1935. Whilst the clouds of impending war loomed over continental Europe, Britain was enjoying the last days of Empire, and her air force was coming to rival the Royal Navy as an extension of Imperial power.

The dramatic strides in technological development were still to come to the fore, and the machines of the day often bore greater similarity to those of the previous global conflict two decades earlier, than to those that would follow within the next very few years.

Bill Chorley and Paul McMillan have provided a massive amount of significant detail, in another volume that forms an essential record of RAF history between the wars.