249 at War; Author: Cull, Brian; Author: Galea, Frederick (Honorary Secretary, War Museum, Malta); Hardback; Book

Author: Cull, Brian; Author: Galea, Frederick (Honorary Secretary, War Museum, Malta)
Hardback; Book; 100 Photographs
303 pages
Published: September 1997
Grub Street
ISBN: 1898697493
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Subtitled 'The Authorised History of the RAF's Top Claiming Squadron of WWII.' With many illustrious names amongst its roll of honour, Grub Street are proud to publish this exciting history of what is arguably the RAF's foremost fighting squadron.A history of one of the RAF's foremost fighting squadrons. Formed in 1940, 249 saw action in the Battle of Britain before moving to Italy where it participated in fighter-bomber attacks with Spitfires and Mustangs. Postwar the squadron was based in the Middle East until it was disbanded in 1969.