Canada. Eagles Recalled - Air Force Wings Of Canada, Great Britain And The British Commonwealth 1913-1945 By Warren Carroll

Hardcover, light gray cloth cover, with dust jacket, entitled "Eagles Recalled - Air Force Wings of Canada, Great Britain and the British Commonwealth 1913-1945" by Warren Carroll (1933-2015), with illustrations by Michael Martchenko and designed by Ian Robertson, with a Foreword by Air Commodore Leonard J. Birchall, OBE, DFC, O Ont., CD. (The Savior of Ceylon), copyrighted in 1997, published by Schiffer Publishing Limited of Atgle, Pennsylvania, printed in China, Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-71816, ISBN 0-7643-0244-2. It features text and photographs of the cloth and metal badges of pilots and aircrew of the air forces of Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Rhodesia, South Africa, New Zealand and Norway, along with touching on those from the various Second World War Allies of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, India, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, United States and Yugoslavia, the badges supplemented with uniform illustrations. This publication is considered to be the definitive work written on the subject, designed in a comprehensive form, complete with issue dates, this publication of original and authentic insignia will appeal to curators, cataloguers, historians, collectors, as well as veterans. It is divided into thirty-one chapters entitled: 1. Crowns and Eagles; 2. The Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers 1911; 3. The Royal Flying Corps 1912-1918; 4. The Royal Flying Corps Pilot/Observer; 5. The Royal Naval Service 1912-1918; 6. Canadian Aviation Corps 1914-1915; 7. Royal Canadian Flying Corps 1918; 8. The Canadian Air Force 1918-1920; 9. The Royal Canadian Naval Air Service 1918-1919; 10. The Royal Air Force 1918-1938; 11. The First Issue of the Royal Air Force - Seventy-Five Years Later; 12. The RAF Association Wing; 13. The Canadian Air Force 1920-1924; 14. The Royal Canadian Air Force 1924-1938; 15. Through The War Years 1939-1945; 16. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan 1939-1945; 17. Elementary Training Schools, Service Flying Training Schools 1940-1945; 18. The Royal Air Force 1939-1945; 19. Official and Unofficial Awards; 20. The Royal Navy, Marines and The Royal Canadian Navy Fleet Arm 1924-1945; 21. RAF Ferry Command 1949-1943 and Transport Command 1943-1945; 22. The Air Transport Auxiliary 1938-1945; 23. The Civil Air Guard 1938; 24. The Army 1938-1945; 25. The Glider Regiment 1942-1945; 26. The Australian Flying Corps 1911-1921, Australian Air Force 1921-1923 and Royal Australian Air Force 1923-1945; 27. The Southern Rhodesian Air Force 1934-1945; 28. The South African Aviation Corps 1912-1920 and South African Air Force 1920-1945; 29. The New Zealand Air Force 1912-1920 and Royal New Zealand Air Force 1937-1945; 30. The Allies; 31. The Royal Nowegian Air Force 1940-1945. It has 240 pages and contains more than 800 colour and black & white photographs, on a white coated paper stock, measuring 218 mm (w) x 285 mm (h) x 26 mm (d). Small spot evident on the back cover, near extremely fine.

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