Raf middle east (9 risultati)

Card Covers. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Card covers. Original example of this Secret review, No 1 May-December 1942. Includes Battle for Egypt, Operations from Malta, Entry of USAAF, Reconnaissance. 100pp., excellent photographs, many aerial, tables, maps. Hint of foxing and a copy of minor blemishes, modest label remains to covers. Rare original.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Several loose unnumbered sheets (maps, notes, tables etc) variously dated 1947-48, bound inside RANAD tan covers 23x30cm. Fair with annotations. The RANAD (Route Airfields and Navigation Aid Documents) Route Briefs succeeded the Air Route Books issued by No. 216 Group of the Transport Command during WW2. The were made up of loose sheets (maps, airfield profiles, notes etc) as and when required, to help pilots execute specifically defined flights. Sometimes marked confidential, they were to be returned to the Briefing Officer on completion of the flight (in wartime, they were to be destroyed in the event of a forced landing in enemy or neutral territory). This particular example includes: Contents (1pp); Frequency changeover times (1pp); Legend (index map 2pp), abbreviations and terms (1pp); Area C Charts for Sections C1, 2 and 4 (1pp each); Section C typed notes and details for C4 (2, 3pp), C2 (2, 2pp), C1 (2, 8pp); Airfield sheets 2pp each for Egypt (Abu Sueir, Kabrit, Fayid, Shallufa, Kasfareet), Libya / Cyrenaica / Tripolitania (El Adem, Benina, Castel Benito), Malta (Luqa) with Area C Air Approaches to Malta), Greece (Hassani-Athens), Cyprus (Nicosia); Conversion tables (2pp), Hints and Tips for what to do after a Forced Landing 'in the Blue'" (2pp); Use of Combined Panel Code for Distress Signals after Forced Landing in Isolated Territory (1pp); Supplementary - Airfields and ELGs (Emergency Landing Grounds - Egypt (2pp with plans); Supplementary - Airfields and ELGs Egypt - Cyrenaica (2pp with plans); Emergency Airfields in Algeria - Tunisia - Tripolitania (2pp with plans); Marine Lights Mediterranean (4pp + folding map); Tracks and Distances Mediterranean Area (folding map).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Several loose unnumbered sheets variously dated in 1945, bound inside HQ 216 Group Navigation Branch ms titled tan covers 23x30cm. These include 24 Airfield Profiles, maps, notes, tables and other relevant information. Covers good, contents generally very good. These were issued by 216 Group, part of the Transport Command, headquartered at Cairo West during 1942-45. It compiled Air Route Books from loose sheets (maps, airfield profiles, notes etc) as and when required, to help pilots execute specifically defined flights. Marked confidential, they were to be returned to the Briefing Officer on completion of the flight, or otherwise destroyed in the event of a forced landing in enemy or neutral territory. AIRFIELD PROFILES: in alphabetical order with colour maps, b/w aerial views, general information and radio aids, 2pp each unless stated otherwise: Ahmedabad, Arkonam, Aurangabad, Bellary, Chittagong, Chor, Chakulia, Cuttack, Cox's Bazar, Chela, Digri, Dum Dum, Gujrat, Jungshahi, Kargi Road, Minneriya (Ceylon), Nagpur, Peshawar, Palam, Poona, Salawas, Santa Cruz Bombay (6pp), St Thomas Mount Madras (6pp), and Yelahanka. / OTHER SHEETS: Tracks and Distances for Karachi - Poona and Poona Madras (2pp); Emergency Landing Grounds Maripur - Poona (2pp); Alternative and Diversionary Airfields Calcutta (India) Area (folding sheet); Alternative and Diversionary Airfields Madras (India) Area (1pp); Alternative and Diversionary Airfields Karachi Area (folding sheet); Supplementary Airfields and ELGs Mauripur-Ahmedabad-Bairagarh-Nagpur, Ahmedabad-Santa Cruz (2pp, with Daman red stamped "Neutral"); SW Monsoon maps (2pp); Most Important Localities in which Certain Infectious Diseases Occur (b/w folding map); folding sheet with 2 charts showing Daylight and Darkness in Northern and Southern Hemispheres; Standard OGH procedure chart (1pp); Conversion tables (2pp). …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Several loose unbound sheets 20x28cm, two of which folding @40x28cm, variously dated 1944-45. Near fine. These were issued by 216 Group, part of the Transport Command, headquartered at Cairo West during 1942-45. It compiled Air Route Books from loose sheets (maps, airfield profiles, notes etc) as and when required, to help pilots execute specifically defined flights. Marked confidential, they were to be returned to the Briefing Officer on completion of the flight, or otherwise destroyed in the event of a forced landing in enemy or neutral territory. This set contains unused sheets that have not been hole-punched or bound. They include: (1) "Middle East - India Routes" June 1944, folding @40x28cm, showing two routes departing from Cairo West and meeting at Jiwani for the final leg to Mauripur. The southern route went via Sudan, Eritrea, Aden, South Arabia, and Oman. The eastern route went via Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, and Sharjah. // (2) "Routes: Cairo to India" 1 Nov 1944, folding @40x28cm - a later edition of the above // (3)-(8) Airfield Profiles with colour maps, b/w aerial views, general information, radio aids, description, facilities and weather for 5 airfields along the Eastern route, and 1 along the southern route including: Lydda, Palestine, 4pp; LGH3, Iraq, 6pp; Habbaniya, Iraq, 4pp; Shaibah, Iraq, 8pp; Jask, Iran, 2pp; Masira Island, South Arabia, 2pp. …

Condizione: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Years of speculation about Warburton's fate came to an end in 2002, when his remains were found with his aircraft, buried about 2 yards deep in a field near the Bavarian village of Egling an der Paar, 34 miles west of Munich. According to witnesses, the aircraft fell there on 12 April 1944, around 11:45. One of the propellers had bullet holes in it, which suggests that Warburton had been shot down. Contains 222 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in in near Fine condition dust wrapper with light rubbing across the spine ends, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'To Harry Kirk - who was also there (see next page) With best regards Tony Spooner | November 1987'. A unique signed copy to Harry Kirk, reference is being made to the RAF's defence of the strategically important defence of the Maltese Islands. There is a typed correction laid in by Kirk as follows 'I asked Warby if he ever saw a camel train' Tony altered it to read that I asked Warby 'What was a camel train' | pp 66 has another paper laid-in 'This should read that I asked Warby if he ever saw any camel trains on his trips along the African coast' Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MALTA (Maltese History).…

Two 4to files of ca. 30 leaves each, including distress signal code tables, tips for forced landings, colour-printed route maps, radio beacon maps, emergency airfield maps (folded), and double-sided airfield leaves dedicated to single airfields along the designated route. Original printed wrappers. Perforated and handbound with cords. Two air route books for pilots of the Royal Air Force flying from Cairo to Karachi during World War II, "designed to help [them] to execute flights vital to our fronts in all theatres of war. The information which [they] contain is therefore also of use to the enemy, and must be safeguarded at all times" (p. 1). - The books are in fact useful guides to airports along the way, the plans depicting airfields in Egypt (Cairo West, Almaza, Payne, Heliopolis, Lydda and Luxor), as well as in Bahrein, Sharjah, Jiwani, Karachi, Wadi Halfa, Khartoum, Sheikh Othman, Khormaksar, Riyan and other places. For each airfield general information like coordinates, the length of the runways, the nature of ground signals, existing hangars, repair and fuel facilities, expectable weather conditions, distances to other places, radio aids, and local currency, as well as timetables of morning and evening twilight are given. The folding plans show emergency airfields in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, Iraq, Persia, and the Arabian Gulf area, as well as the routes between the Middle East and India. - Further, the booklets include instructions on what to do after a forced landing in unknown territory, advising to ration water and attract attention of rescue aircraft through a spread-out parachute or fires, including the order: "Don't drink the compass alcohol". - There is no standard collation for the books, as they were added to with monthly supplements. With the handwritten note "Compiled 21.2.45" as well as a signature to inner covers. The "from" and "to" fields on the title-pages (i.e., the front covers) are filled out by the same hand. - Covers show some small creases and edge tears; a few small ruststains, but on the whole well-preserved specimens from wartime Royal Air Force use. …

First and only edition, one of 375 copies, of which we have traced only two others (British Library and National Archives). This informative publication, issued for official use only with maps that were originally classified CONFIDENTIAL, reproduces Air Vice-Marshal J. M. Salmond's report on the early years of Iraq Command. At the end of the First World War, the newly amalgamated RAF took the lead in imperial policy. With the outbreak of revolt in 1920, Churchill, as Secretary of State for Air and for War, instructed Hugh Trenchard, the Chief of the Air Staff, to repeat in Iraq the success of the aerial campaign against the "Mad Mullah" in Somaliland; by 1922, all operations were consolidated under Iraq Command. "Iraq was the RAF's biggest challenge in the 1920s. First, the area of operations included three separate fronts or areas of concern. Consequently, the operations in each area had their own unique circumstances. Second, Britain and the RAF stayed engaged in the area throughout the interwar period, and as such, doctrinal development is easily tracked in successive command reports" (Longoria, p. 19). In the period covered by this publication, operations included countering uprisings around Baghdad and Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji's insurgency among the Kurds, and executing bombing runs against the Wahhabist Ikhwan raiders crossing from Najd. Salmond is sanguine about the future: "I am well aware of the caution which must be exercised in forecasting, however, tentatively, changes and innovations in the methods of war But I venture to think that when the peculiar value and suitability of air power, both for the direction and conduct of small warfare, is more generally understood, important changes may take place alike in its tactics and in the composition of the force employed" (p. 52). M. A. Longoria, A Historical View of Air Policing Doctrine, 1993. Octavo. With 2 large folding colour maps (Map 1: bounded by Baghdad in north and Kuwait in south; Map 2: extending north from Baghdad to Turkish border. Each unfolding to approx. 710 x 610 mm). Original blue-grey card wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, front cover lettered in black. Posthumous bookplate of Peter Hopkirk, scholar of British imperial history, on inside front cover; "confidential" classification on first map crossed out. Binding lightly toned, rear cover pulled away from staples but secure, folding maps now detached from their staples due to bulk but still well preserved: very good.…

A collection of charts covering the Arabian Peninsula, stretching to encompass North Africa, India, and the Maldives. The isogonals are correct to 1963. We have traced only three institutions that hold maps from this GSGS 4930 series: the British library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Australia. In the 1950s and 60s the RAF was heavily involved in supporting UK interests in the Middle East. In particular, they defended the UK's protectorates and allies in southern Yemen by airlifting ground troops into insurgent-controlled areas. "The most prominent COIN [counter-insurgency] operation of the mid-1950s took place in Western Aden, after continuing low-level unrest in the remote Wadi Hatib area persuaded the government to establish a new fort at Robat. The fort, together with a number of other isolated military outposts, subsequently came under attack from two dissident tribes, who received backing from Yemen. The British were obliged to airlift troops from Aden Colony into the affected area, and this relief operation was soon followed by the application of more forceful air control measures - warnings followed by the bombing of rebel villages, crops and water supplies. These operations were sustained throughout the second half of 1954, but there was no obvious reduction of insurgent activity" (Ritchie, p. 61). These activities would grow in frequency and scale during the 1960s with the Aden Emergency. Notably, these maps were issued in the same year that the RAF restructured its forces in the Middle East, forming the Headquarters Middle East Command. Sebastian Ritchie, "RAF Counter-Insurgency Operations in Oman and Aden, 1950-1970", Air Power Review, vol. 11, no. 1, 2008. Colour maps (approximately 880 x 1145 mm, folding to approximately 298 x 220 mm), keys to recto; text printed in blue and orange. Extremities a little toned and creased, small closed tear to margin of Sheet NE 01.5/43 not affecting printed area, light dust-soiling and foxing to fold lines and versos: a very good collection.…

Later edition, corrected to 1958, of this chart showing flight paths around the Middle East and North Africa. Major air traffic control hubs are coloured in blue, with compass bearings, compulsory reporting points, and radio ranges marked in black. The boundaries of each flight information region are also clearly marked. RAF pilots would use these charts to avoid civilian flight paths, so they needed to know who the relevant local authority was in any given area. This allowed them to radio in reports or requests for information to the correct controllers. Sometimes these authorities stretched far beyond the national borders of the country itself, such as Malta spanning most of North Africa or Bahrain over Saudi Arabia. This example is the fifth edition. Colour chart (546 x 845 mm), printed on recto only. Initials inscribed in blue ink on one panel. Chart bright, a little soiled especially to two lower right panels: a very good example.…