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29 Oct 2008 14:39 - 05 Sep 2018 10:28 #1
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RAF Airfield Construction Service 1939-46
Anthony Betts (1995)
ISBN 0952184710
A4 format, 151pp, 62 b/w photos, 32 maps & illustrations.
I picked a copy of this book up in a second-hand sale a while back.
Inspired by the author's father who was in the ACS, it covers the establishment and development of the Service, with plenty of maps and photos of airfields in the UK and NW Europe, construction plant, temporary matting types, etc.
It concludes with a listing of the composition of the various Airfield Construction Wings.
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Anthony Betts (1995)
ISBN 0952184710
A4 format, 151pp, 62 b/w photos, 32 maps & illustrations.
I picked a copy of this book up in a second-hand sale a while back.
Inspired by the author's father who was in the ACS, it covers the establishment and development of the Service, with plenty of maps and photos of airfields in the UK and NW Europe, construction plant, temporary matting types, etc.
It concludes with a listing of the composition of the various Airfield Construction Wings.
PB
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29 Oct 2008 16:57 #2
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6 RCAF Bomber Group (organisation, airfields, squadrons, aircarft, and their 70 crashes in Belgium (location, crew, evasion lines, cemeteries, PoW Camps, etc...). Busy for a couple of years !!!!!!
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I have a copy too... excellent book !
6 RCAF Bomber Group (organisation, airfields, squadrons, aircarft, and their 70 crashes in Belgium (location, crew, evasion lines, cemeteries, PoW Camps, etc...). Busy for a couple of years !!!!!!
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29 Oct 2008 21:04 #3
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"We either stand down or blow up - which do you want!"
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I'll have to keep my eyes peeled then - I have found it for sale for the equivalent of £35 on Amamzon.de and I can only partly translate the page! Never mind, it'll show up again somewhere, I suppose. I tried the other suspects, Amazon UK, Abebooks. Any other ideas?
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29 Oct 2008 21:35 #4
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try a request to your local library service, its what you pay taxes for. Anyway used to work when I was a lad!
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30 Oct 2008 02:36 #5
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Military History Books.com have it listed at £12.95, or £14.94 from the same source via Biblio.com.....
All the best,
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I'll have to keep my eyes peeled then - I have found it for sale for the equivalent of £35 on Amamzon.de and I can only partly translate the page! Never mind, it'll show up again somewhere, I suppose. I tried the other suspects, Amazon UK, Abebooks. Any other ideas?
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Military History Books.com have it listed at £12.95, or £14.94 from the same source via Biblio.com.....
All the best,
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30 Oct 2008 12:59 #6
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No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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I have a copy also. A good read. I tend to buy mine when thay come out as books on airfields tend to be deleted very quickly.
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30 Oct 2008 17:02 #7
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You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!
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Ah this is a book that I published back in the last century, I gave my entire stock to ARG.
You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!
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I don't suppose you still have a copy for sale do you?
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Sorry there are no copies left, we have sold out mate.
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