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    The Armed Rovers: Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean
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    The Armed Rovers: Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean

    By Roy Conyers Nesbit

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    By far the most dangerous of the RAF operations during the Second World War were daylight attacks on enemy shipping, yet little has been written about this aerial campaign and the brave airmen who took part. In particular the intense air-sea battles that were fought in the Mediterranean have been neglected in histories of the war in North Africa and Italy. Roy Nesbit, in this classic account, sets the record straight by describing in vivid detail how a few RAF squadrons were successful in destroying supplies that were vital to the Italian and German armies during the fighting in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia. At critical moments during the land battles – during the dramatic advances and retreats that characterized the fighting in the desert – the failure of supplies to get through to Rommel’s Afrika Korps was decisive. But the casualties suffered by the airmen in these low-level attacks were daunting, as were those among the naval and merchant seamen whose vessels were targeted.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateJul 19, 2014
    ISBN9781526704542
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    The Armed Rovers: Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean
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    Roy Conyers Nesbit

    Roy Conyers Nesbit has a long-established reputation as a leading aviation historian. His many books include The Royal Air Force: An Illustrated History From 1918, RAF in Camera, The Battle of Britain, The Battle for Europe, Arctic Airmen, Eyes of the RAF, The Battle of the Atlantic, Ultra Versus U-Boats, Reported Missing, The Battle for Burma, and The Strike Wings.

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      An episodic narrative history of the RAF squadrons equipped with maritime strike aircraft written by a man with experience in such machines. Apart from being a bit too gushing about the impact of Allied signal intelligence and the legend of Erwin Rommel this book still fills a real gap about the history of the RAF in World War II.