Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book ultimately distinguished by its conclusions...
Throughout the 1930s, RAF Manston became established as one of the most important airfields in the country. No. 48 Squadron arrived at Manston in December 1935 and was equipped with...
Faster and better armed than the Spitfire, the Whirlwind was the RAF’s counter to a new generation of armoured German bombers which it expected to meet in English skies in...
References to Manston to be confirmed. For many, the Westland Whirlwind conjures the image of yellow air-sea rescue helicopters, not the sleek twin-engine monoplane that was the RAF’s first single-seat,...
Lympne Airfield: At War and Peace is the story of ‘Kent’s Garden Airfield’, so called because of its location on an escarpment overlooking Hythe and Romney Marsh. An airfield born...
A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1916-1930: The Men Who Made Manston covers the development of aviation in Thanet up to and including the period of the First World War....
Battle of Britain Day, 15th September 1940
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Manston attacked on ‘The Hardest Day’, 18th August 1940
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Rise and Defend – The USAF At Manston 1950-1958
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South Goodwin Lightship Disaster, 26/27th November 1954
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V-1 Flying Bomb Aces by Mark Postlethwaite
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On this day, 28th August 1942, 56 emergency landings
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Manston’s role on D-Day, 6th June 1944
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