Books that I recommend on the WW2 Aviation

[Woodlouse2002]

That was a campaign as you said and not a Theatre of war.

[C]

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As far as i'm aware

[Hagar]

Come to that what about the good ol' Shagbat? http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Aircraft/Walrus.htm

[Woodlouse2002]

I think the Shagbat comes closest, but I don't see it being used that much on the eastern front...

[Woodlouse2002]

I take that back. It was used on the eastern front. Though only one of them was.

Walrus P5706 was delivered on lend-lease loan in 1942to Russia. It went out as deck cargo on SS Ocean Freedom in an Arctic Convoy to the Archangel area, where it was used by the Russians for operational purposes. It is presumed that it was retained after the war.

[C]

I take that back. It was used on the eastern front. Though only one of them was.

In fact, I think Doug has the answer - weren't several carried aboard Royal Navy cruisers. I distinctly remeber HMS Belfast having one, and expect others did too...

Charlie

[Woodlouse2002]

That is what he's implying there. The fact that there was one on almost every Royal Navy ship from Cruiser upwards that had been made post 1930. So what ever theatre the navy went to, the Walrus went too.

[C]

I don't think I could be too far wrong with the Lizzie - it was in the european theatre through out the war with the RAF (Coastal, Army co-op, SOE ops), North Africa, Middle East, East (Finland amongst others), Far East (RAF - SOE), and quite possibly the North atlantic with the RN and RAF from bases in Scotland and Northern Ireland...

I'm trying to think of more...

It was also used by the Egyptians against the Israelis in 1948. I didn't know that...

Charlie

[Hagar]

That is what he's implying there.

Quite correct Woody. You know me too well.

The fact that there was one on almost every Royal Navy ship from Cruiser upwards that had been made post 1930. So what ever theatre the navy went to, the Walrus went too.[/

And there weren't many places the Royal Navy didn't go to in those days.

[Woodlouse2002]

I just don't think the Lizzie would have been of much value in the pacific though. It simply doesn't have the range and the sort of operations it was used for in europe wern't really carried out in the pacific. I'd be very surprised if there were any there at all outside of Australia.

[C]

I just don't think the Lizzie would have been of much value in the pacific though. It simply doesn't have the range and the sort of operations it was used for in europe wern't really carried out in the pacific. I'd be very surprised if there were any there at all outside of Australia.

They were used by the SOE in the far east, under the RAF's SEAC. Depend's on where you draw the line/distinguish between the pacific and far east...

Charlie