249 at Malta: Raf's Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron

by Brian Cull (Author), Frederick Galea (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2017

  $22.95

  Many otherwise average fighter pilots came of age in the skies of Malta-an area dubbed 'a fighter pilot's paradise'. There was seldom a shortage of targets as the Luftwaffe endeavoured to flatten the defences and destroy the small air force, in which task it failed, but only narrowly. 249 Squadron was at the forefront of the fighting for two years.