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From Bird Cage to Battle Plane: The History of the RAF Ralph Michaelis

From Bird Cage to Battle Plane: The History of the RAF Ralph Michaelis

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    From Bird Cage to Battle Plane: The History of the RAF
    Ralph Michaelis
    FIRST EDITION.  Hard cover
    .  Crowell, 1943.  248
    pages.  Photographs.  Very good+ book in very good dust jacket.  Great copy!
    The review remains laid-in and has a photograph of a New Sopwith fighter (SE-5) which the RAF used in World War 1 and at the bottom a photo of a New Boulton Paul Defiant with the caption saying the flying speed was over 500 mph and diving speed over 600. It carried 14 machine guns in wings alone according to the article. Quote from the 1943 clipping - 'As Ralph Michaelis of the RAF tells it in the excellent history of the rise of British air power From Bird Cage to Battle Plane (Crowell, .50), this week's Book-of-the-Mirror, you really see the growing of the British plane mosaic in all its detailed, witty, caustic, blood and sweat, tragedy and tears segments: a puzzle of parts that hangs together for the showdown like a sky full of planes doing an Immelman across the horizon of history.' Contents in Six Chapter: The Birds and Their Cages, The Fighter Commnd, Bomber Command, Coastal Command, The Middle East, and The Eagle Squadrons. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout.
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