The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell during World War II

by Tom Killebrew

University of North Texas Press, 2003

Cloth: 978-1-57441-169-0 | Paper: 978-1-57441-272-7 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-423-3

Library of Congress Classification UG639.G72T475 2003

Dewey Decimal Classification 940.5449410976493






List of Illustrations ............................ viii
Foreword by Air Vice-Marshal H. Gill, CB, OBE ...... ix
Acknowledgments .................................... xi
Introduction ........................................ 1
Chapter 1-Inception  .........................        4
Chapter 2-First Courses ..............               23
Chapter 3-The New School ........................... 45
Chapter 4-Operations ............................... 59
Chapter 5-America Enters the War ................... 81
Chapter 6-Expansion      ........................   103
Chapter 7-Toward the End .......................... 126
Chapter 8-Epilogue ................................ 144
Appendixes
A. List of Fatalities ............................  160
B. The AT-6 Incident .............................  166
C. We're the Boys of No.1 BFTS .................... 168
Bibliography ...................................... 170
Index  ...........................................  176

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