HURRICANE SQUADRON. by Jackson, Robert - 1984

New York: Walker (Originally published: A. Barker, London, 1978)., 1984. 144 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "To Sergeant George Yeoman, cruising high above France in his Hurricane fighter, about to join his first operational squadron, the prospect of battle seems distant and unreal. Each side has been gingerly reconnoitering the other for weeks in what has become known as the 'phony war'. But Yeoman is flying into a fire storm. At that moment, the deadly formations of the Luftwaffe are winging toward the allied airfields. The Blitzkrieg has begun. You are in the cockpit as Yeoman wheels and dives over the green fields of France. The dual machine guns and the hammering cannon of the Messerschmitt 109 can chew apart the canvas-covered Hurricanes, and Hitler's pilots have four years experience from the Spanish civil war. At first the British aviators are locked into textbook echelons that the enemy easily picks apart. As the British Expeditionary Force fights its way to Dunkirk, the men of the RAF fighter command work at the limits of their endurance, finding the performance envelope of their planes and scrambling for tactics to meet the German threat. This is the vivid story of an air force at war; of courageous young pilots flying against the odds; and of man's rise to maturity in the brutal world of air combat, when sudden death at an early age is the order of the day, and the price of freedom." Slight browning to edges of text block, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling and browning, minor rubbing.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.