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|February 2020
Dive Bomber by Robert A Winston, first published by George G Harrap & Co Ltd 1940, available second-hand £7 to £10, Amazon Kindle edition £3.78. Hardback, 192 pages, black and white illustration
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This little book appears here thanks to the chap who pointed it out to me on the second-hand bookstall at the West London Aero Club's Members Day, and it came with the ‘three for a tenner’ bargain cache that included L J K Setright’s The Power to Fly, (see ‘Books & Gear’, November 2019). Dive Bomber was “one of the classics,” he said “and the author wrote a sequel that’s also worth reading” (Fighting Squadron).
All I can say is thank you so much for the tip, sir: Dive Bomber shines a light on a world of 1930s US naval aviation that I thought I knew a little about and now realize I was almost entirely ignorant of. Highly informative, it is also engaging and well written and contains some of the most enthralling descriptions of flying I have read.
This story is from the February 2020 edition of Pilot.
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