Moon Squadron
( SOE ) ( SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE ) TICKELL, Jerrard
FIRST ACCOUNT OF SOE'S AIRCRAFT
Published: Allan Wingate, [1956]
Stock code: 48539
Price: £47.00
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at upper edge of front panel.
The first dedicated account, necessarily fragmentary, of the handful of RAF aircraft assigned to SOE. Initially led by Fielden, the 'moon squadrons' (mainly Hudsons and Lysanders) ferried agents to and fro throughout Occupied Europe. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.401