Description

This book deals with the histories of Argentine Volunteer Aircrews in the RAF and RCAF during the Second World War. It reveals that not only manpower was the voluntary collaboration to the war effort but also two full squadrons of Spitfires and Mosquitoes financed by Anglo-Argentines. Several baptized with Buenos Aires neighbourhood names such as Hurlingham, Olivos, and even Pampero I, II, III, IV, and illustrated with Argentine popular sketches of the time depicting “gauchos” and comics characters.

Illustrated throughout. English and Spanish text.