Flying to Victory, Volume 58: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940-1941

by Michael Bechthold

Canadian-born flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893-1976) served in Britain's air forces for twenty-eight years. As a pilot in World War I he was credited with sixty-one confirmed kills on the Western Front. When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a Royal Air Force group in Egypt. It was in Egypt and Libya in 1940-41, during the Britain's Western Desert campaign, that he demonstrated the tenets of an effective air-ground...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806155965
• ISBN13: 9780806155968
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"