ENSOR'S ENDEAVOUR: A BIOGRAPHY OF WING COMMANDER MICK ENSOR DSO & BAR, DFC & BAR, AFC, RNZAF & RAF.
by Orange, Vincent. (Mick Ensor.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Grub Street, 1994. 190 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, maps. Mick Ensor "learned to fly in New Zealand and joined 500 Squadron at Bircham Newton, Norfolk in 1941. Having survived several dangerous operations in Blenheims over the North Sea and the French coast, Mick first earned fame on his second Hudson operation in January, 1942, attacking three German ships at mast height. During 1942, he hunted U-boats over the Atlantic from Stornoway and then took part in Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa. Mick destroyed U-259 on 15 November in one of the war's most dramatic attacks. After six months at Coastal Command HQ, sharing his front-line experience with experts conducting the vital Battle of the Atlantic, Mick returned to operations with 224 Squadron in July 1943. After the war, Mick flew 200 mission in the Berlin Airlift and served for a couple of years with the US Navy, flying patrols off the Russian and Japanese coasts during the Korean War. He flew jets and gliders with equal aplomb before returning home to New Zealand in 1967." Tiny crease at top corner of five page leaves at beginning of chapter VII, slight separation between illustration page gatherings - still firmly held in binding. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling on front hinge area.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. Illus. by John Crisp, dust jacket art..
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30593
- Title
- ENSOR'S ENDEAVOUR: A BIOGRAPHY OF WING COMMANDER MICK ENSOR DSO & BAR, DFC & BAR, AFC, RNZAF & RAF.
- Author
- Orange, Vincent. (Mick Ensor.)
- Illustrator
- John Crisp, dust jacket art.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grub Street
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Mick Ensor, New Zealand, Coastal Command, U-boats, 500 Squadron, Blenheims, Hudson, Air crew, Atlantic, Stornoway, Operation Torch, Battle of Atlantic, 224 Squardron, Liberators, Berlin Airlift, Pilots, Consolidated Liberator, Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - World War II; Military - Aviation; Military - Post WWII;
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