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EAGLE'S WAR: The War Diary of an aircraft-carrier.
H/B Crecy Publishing, Manchester 1995 (ISBN 0 94755460 2); Czech Edition Nase Vojsko, Prague, 2007; P/B Edition, Goodall, Manchester, due Autumn 2008; P/B Maltese Edition, Miller, Autumn 2008.
The war diary of an aircraft carrier. One of the Royal Navy's first aircraft carriers, the Eagle was built on the hull of a Chilean battleship. She pioneered naval aviation in the 1920's and 1930's and spent many years in the Far East. Old, outclassed and small when war broke out, she still performed invaluable service in the front line. The only aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Fleet of Admiral Cunningham, she survived innumerable bombing attacks by Axis aircraft and her own planes fought at the battles of Calabria and Taranto and a host of lesser actions.
Later she became involved in ferrying fighter aircraft, Hurricanes and Spitfires, to Malta from the west and took part in many such operations which saved the island. Finally she was part of the great Pedestal convoy of August, 1942, and met her gallant end at the hands of a U-boat. Packed with original photographs and eyewitness stories this account of the work of one carrier in a global war is a fitting tribute to the original FAA.
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