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By the Skin of my Teeth: The Memoirs of an RAF Mustang Pilot in World War II and of Flying Sabres with USAF in Korea

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by Colin Downes


  United States Marine Corps

  1st Marine Division

  V-1 flying bomb

  launch sites

  V-2 rocket

  launch sites

  Verrinder, Carl

  Vickers Valiant

  Vickers Warwick

  Vickers Wellington

  Vienna

  Sacher Hotel

  Viet Cong

  Vietnam

  Vietnam War

  Vincent, AVM Stanley, DFC

  Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene

  Voltaire

  WAAFs

  Wake Island

  Washington, DC

  Waterloo, Battle of

  weapons see also ‘GUNVAL’ gun evaluation trials; tanks, early; V-1 flying bomb; V-2 rocket

  anti-tank rifle, Mauser.75 mm

  bombs

  12,000 lb ‘Block Buster’

  22,000 lb ‘Grand Slam’

  atomic

  napalm

  cannon

  20 mm

  23 mm

  30 mm

  37 mm

  Adenmm

  Hispanomm

  M-39mm

  grenade, Mills

  machine-guns

  Browning.303 in

  Browning.5 in

  Browning.7 mm

  M-3.5 in

  missiles

  A-4

  Firestreak infra-red air-to-air

  Red Top infra-red guided

  Sidewinder infra-red guided

  Sparrow radar guided

  Molins gun, 57 mm

  mortar, Stokesin

  pistol, Browningmm automatic

  revolver, Smith and Wesson.32

  rifle, Jeffery

  rifle, Lee-Enfield

  rifle, Mauser

  rocket projectiles, 3 in free-flight

  rockets, anti-aircraft

  tanks, early

  Weighill, Flight Lieutenant Bob

  Weizman, General Ezer

  Wellington, Duke of

  West, Arthur Graeme

  West, Major General Mike

  West Irian

  Westmoreland, General

  Westward Ho!

  Wharfe, River

  White City Gang

  Whitley Bay

  Wickham, Wing Commander Peter, DSO DFC

  Williams, Ted

  Woodbury, Woody

  Yalu River

  Yeager, Chuck

  Yellow Sea

  Yin-Yang school of Chinese philosophers

  Yokohama

  Yom Kippur War

  Yorkshire Dales

  Young, Edward

  Ypres, Second Offensive

  Ypres, Third Offensive

  Zealots

 

 

 


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