Wallace, Graham, — RAF BIGGIN HILL.

Four Square, London, 1959, 3rd imp., paperback, 221pp, 8pp sepia tone photo ills., [iii] ads., coloured pictorial wrappers, a history of the famous RAF fighter station from the early days of 1917 when occupied by the Royal Flying Corps and the home of the Wireless Experimental Establishment, after the WW1 years with the development of the Royal Air Force, of operational radio control and the development the methods of sound locationn before the Chain Home radar defence capability, through WW2 when it was a key airfield in the defence of London and the South-East, with an account of many of the raids on the airfield and of the combats by fighter pilots of the many squadrons based there during the Battle of Britain, the later fighter raids on enemy installtions in France and Belgium (rhubarbs) and escorting our own and US bombers, to the latter days when Biggin Hill lay within the area known as 'Doodlebug Alley', rubbed at extrems., moderate creasing to wrappers, cnrs. inclined to curl, edges tanned, good,