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Nelson and Saunders,. Hardback. 337pp. Lettice Curtis was possibly the most experienced WW2 female pilot plying everything from spitfires and Hurricanes to heavy bombers like the Lancaster, to deliver them to the front line air squadrons. Here she tells the story of these pilots often flying alone and unarmed and using maps to navigate the landscape. Also included is the first Day Cover of a stamp celebrating the 40th anniversary formation of the ATA. This special edition illustrated envelope is signed by both Lettice Curtis and Sir Peter Mursell to teh front and has two clear franks postmarking the envelope to 1st December 1979. The back of the envelope assigned by FlLt F. W. Waters of the RAF Musem certifying this as number 401 of 1488. the FDC was sent to Fl Lt Waters and bears his address to the front. The envelope contains three information cards about Lettice Curtis, Sir Peter Mursell and the ATA as well as two photographs of Curtis and Munsell. the envelope also includes some…
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Forgotten Pilots A Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary Hardcover - 1994
by Curtis, Lettice.
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- Title Forgotten Pilots A Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary
- Author Curtis, Lettice.
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Third Edition
- Pages 337
- Publisher Phalanx Pub Co Ltd, Buckinghamshire
- Date January 1994
- ISBN 9780947750022
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The Forgotten Pilots: A Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary 1939-45 together with a signed first day cover celebrating the formation of the ATA
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The Forgotten Pilots - A Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary 1939-45
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U.K.: Nelson & Saunders Ltd., 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 337 pages. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "The story of the Air Transport Auxilliary, a civilian organisation which, during the 1939-45 war, took over the task of ferrying RN and RAF aircraft from the factories to the airfields, thus releasing Service pilots for more active duties... The ATA employed men and a minority of women as pilots and flight engineers on an equal basis. Over a dozen nations including the United States were represented amonst its ranks." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An exellent copy. Enser.
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