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John Car

On Spartan Wings

The Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War Two

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Rarely has an air force gone into combat as poorly prepared and outgunned as the Royal Hellenic Air Force had to when Mussolinis Italy dragged Greece into war on 28 October 1940. Without warning, as Italian forces poured over the frontier from Albania, the RHAFs paltry effective lineup of 128 battle worthy aircraft, most of them obsolete, were pitted against the 463 fielded by the Regia Aeronautica, whose pilots had honed their skills in the Spanish Civil War. On the Greek side, though, aces such as Marinos Mitralexis, with his audacious ramming of an Italian bomber on the fifth day of the war ensured that morale in the RHAF remained high.Tho… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Carr, John
  • ISBN: 978-1-78159-898-6
  • EAN: 9781781598986
  • Produktnummer: 33498763
  • Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Born in North Staffordshire in 1948, John Carr has recently retired from a long career as a journalist, correspondent and broadcaster (The Times, Wall Street Journal Europe, Vatican Radio) mainly in the Mediterranean and particularly Greece, where he now resides. Having once considered a career as an aircraft designer, this book combines an interest in aviation held since his teens and his love of Greek history. He has previously written articles for specialist aviation magazines such as Aircraft

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