ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE NARRATIVE was compiled from Royal Air Force and enemy documents made available by the Royal Air Force Historical Branch, Air Ministry, London. The photographs were supplied by the Air Ministry Information Section. The photographers' names are not known. The photograph on page 17 (bottom) is copyright to the Daily Mirror Newspapers Ltd.

The maps are by L. D. McCormick from material supplied by the Air Ministry.

THE AUTHOR, Flight Lieutenant N. W. Faircloth, of Dunedin, served during the war as a fighter pilot in England and India. He is now on the staff of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Historical Branch, London.