Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword to first and second editions

Foreword to third edition

CHAPTER

1 Not as Other Men Are

2 First Faltering Steps

3 'And History was Made'

4 Camel Captains

5 'Our Airmen have Established ... A Superiority'

6 Mother Meyrick's Own

7 Fastest in the World

8 The Stiffening of the Sinews

9 Unglamorous Beginning

10 Bomber Harvest

11 The Glorious First of June

12 Ruin and Restoration

13 Undaunted by Odds

14 Forty-four for Three

15 Fateful Fortnight

16 Thirteen Group

17 Acklington Revisited

18 Last Summer at Home

19 43 Will Take Off Regardless ...

20 Spitfires in the Spring

21 Sicilian Summer, Autumnal Avalanche

22 Rome via Anzio

23 Vive la France

24 The Strife is 0' er

25 After the End

26 Old Ways Refound

27 Supersonic

28 Near East, Middle East

29 Martin's Magnificent Men

30 Cocks 0' The North

31 Cold War Guardians

32 The Tornado Arrives

33 Back to Iraq

34 Gloria Sine Finis

Postscript

Appendix 1 - Commanding Officers

Appendix 2 - Insignia and Markings

Appendix 3 - 43 Squadron Gallery

Appendix 4 - Squadron Bases

Appendix 5 - Aircraft Performance details

Appendix 6 - Squadron Aircraft

Appendix 7 - Squadron Affiliations

Appendix 8 - Operation QUICKFIRE

Appendix 9 - Glossary

Index - General

Index -People