Item #2593 History of 99 Squadron Independent Force Royal Air Force March, 1918 - November 1918. Squadron Leader L. A. PATTINSON.

History of 99 Squadron Independent Force Royal Air Force March, 1918 - November 1918

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1920. Quarto, dark blue cloth, 74 pp., frontispiece, 21 plates. Boards frayed at spine ends and extremities, hinge split and soft, owner's inscription on preliminary leaf made with black ink, otherwise a good copy A squadron history based on the unit diary of operations on the Western Front in the final year of World War One, and written by L.A. Pattinson, the Squadron Commander. Equipped with the DH9, the 99 Squadron was a bombing squadron. They were tasked with long-distance raids both on enemy-occupied areas of Alsace-Lorraine in France and inside Germany itself. Item #2593

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