North Atlantic Cat ( Catalina )

by Don McVicar and L.R. Williams

The authors personnel recollection of WW2. Don McVicar flew aircraft across the North Atlantic for RAF Ferry Command. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906393256
• ISBN13: 9780906393253
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Airlife Publishing Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Ferry Command Catalina Flights betweeb Bermuda and Scotland over the winter of 1942-1943

Another fascinating and well written personnel recollection of WW2. The author, Don McVicar, flew aircraft across the North Atlantic for RAF Ferry Command. His first book, Ferry Command, was a graphic portrayl of war-time flying across the Atlantic. This book picks up where Ferry Command left off and takes the reader into the cockpit of the Ferry Command Catalina flights between Bermuda and Scotland during the winter of 1942-43. These were 24 hour flights and some of the stories are truely incredible, especially when you consider they did all these without modern avionics. Contains some good pen and nk illustrations as well as 15 b & w photos. 2 Maps (frontpiece and endpiece). Contents Chapter 1 - The Catalina Chapter 2 - Gander Lake Chapter 3 - Highland Interlude Chapter 4 - Bomb Bay Blues Chapter 5 - Crew Assignments Chapter 6 - Elizabeth City Chapter 7 - Crossing the Gulf Stream Chapter 8 - Bermuda Chapter 9 - The Longest Flight Chapter 10 - Night and Storm Chapter 11 - Happy Return Chapter 12 - Strood Chapter 13 - A Bearing from Brest Chapter 14 - The Death Bump Chapter 15 - A Tale of Two Liberators Chapter 16 - A Survivors Story Chapter 17 - A Brace of Good Birds Chapter 18 - The Mosquito Chapter 19 - Fifty nine Landings Chapter 20 - Summer Flying Chapter 21 - We Women of the Sea Chapter 22 - The Hampden Chapter 23 - The Crimson Route West Chapter 24 - Lucky Again Chapter 25 - Criss-Cross Crimson Chapter 26 - A prince of the Blood Royal Chapter 27 - India Chapter 28 - Theres a Long Long Trail A-winding Chapter 29 - An Instructor