A companion work to 'The Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm', this is the first comprehensive listing ever undertaken of the aircraft flown by the Royal Navy in the Second World War. Many years of research have gone into compiling this work, which reveals just how varied and widespread were the activities of the Fleet Air Arm at its highest strength. Despite the dearth of surviving official records on the subject, individual histories have been painstakingly pieced together for the 20,000 aircraft on naval strength during the period. Only a limited amount of relevant documentation still survives, mainly in the Public Record Office and the Fleet Air Arm Museum, but thanks to the considerable assistance given by former naval aircrew, their wartime log book entries have helped to fill many of the remaining gaps. The results provide a valuable insight into the use and fate of the Navy's wartime aircraft, around a third of which were of American origin.
The entries are on similar lines to those in 'Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911 to 1919'. As with the earlier work, the tables are not just a simple listing of serial numbers and squadrons, but include known dates of service with units, code markings and also a vast amount of other information on various types of incident such as accidents, air combat victories and U-boat attacks. Details of all known wartime naval aircraft fatalities and prisoners of war are given, including those who died in RAF or US Navy aircraft, and there is much of interest to local historians. The whole work runs to 512 pages, with 200 photographs and a comprehensive index to around 8,000 names of people of varied ranks included in the lists, many of whom were from Commonwealth navies.
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ISBN 0-85130-232-7
First Published 1995 by
Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd
