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BARRIS, TED Behind the Glory: The Plan That Won the Allied Air War - Training Heroes in Canadian Skies
Toronto, Macmillan Canada. 1992. (ISBN: 0 7715 9007 5) Pictorial Card Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vertical crease to spine. Inside covers have maps of Canada annotated to show British Commonwealth Air Training Plan training facilities 1940-1945: front - Pilot; back - Aircrew (other than pilot). Very clean, sound copy. 358 pages including: detailed Index; List of Sources; Chapter Notes. Illustrated with black and white reproductions of historic photographs. The author interviewed more than 200 instructors to relate the story of the Allies' Canada-based training scheme (1939-1945) and the experiences of the former bush pilots, barnstormers, commercial pilots, crop-dusters and ex-First World War Fighter pilots - the BCATP instructors who gave an air force its wings. Very Good/No Jacket (as published).
Offered for US$ 18.00 by: Literacy Nanaimo - Book number: 003437
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