New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)

Contents

• • [covers]
  • [series]
  • Per ardua ad astra
  • [frontispiece]
  • [title page]
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
• • CHAPTER 1 — The Royal Air Force and Early New Zealand Representation
  • CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations from Britain and France
  • CHAPTER 3 — Meeting the German Attack
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Battle of Britain
  • CHAPTER 5 — Bombing and Reconnaissance, 1940
  • CHAPTER 6 — Defeating the Night Raider
  • CHAPTER 7 — Air War at Sea
  • CHAPTER 8 — Early Bomber Offensive
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Part of No. 75 Squadron
  • CHAPTER 10 — Increasing New Zealand Participation— Formation of Nos. 485,488, and 489 Squadrons
  • CHAPTER 11 — Day Fighters, 1941
  • CHAPTER 12 — Heavier Bombing Raids—Advent of No. 487 Squadron
  • CHAPTER 13 — Pathfinders and Raids on Italy
  • CHAPTER 14 — Battle of the Atlantic, 1942
  • CHAPTER 15 — Attacking Enemy Ships With Mine, Bomb and Torpedo
  • CHAPTER 16 — Day Fighters During 1942
  • CHAPTER 17 — Night Fighters, 1942
• • Appendix I — Principal Events of the Second World War 1939–42
  • Appendix II — A Flight to italy in 1940
  • Appendix III — STRENGHTHS AND CASUALTIES
  • Appendix IV — Principal British and German Operational Aircraft (1939–42)
  • Glossary of Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • [backmatter]
  • Index

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Title: New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)

Author: Thompson, Wing Commander H. L.

Digitisation Funded By: Mary Weston

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1953, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

Key subjects of this text: Royal Air Force

Keywords: New Zealand World War II History

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