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FLYING BOATS OF BERMUDA by Colin A. Pomeroy, Printlink
Ltd. softback, 254 pages, ISBN 0-9698332-4-5, £19.50 incl. p&p.
Available from Pomeroy, Pallington Lakes, Pallington, Dorchester, DT2 8QU,
England. The book is available for US$ purchases from Printlink, PO Box 937, Hamilton HM DX, Bermuda and costs $(US)32.50, including air-lifted P&P.
This is a very readable account of the flying-boat years 1919 to 1964,
from the Burgess N-9H "]enny" to the P5M-2 Mariners of the US Navy. Colin
takes you from the '"Early Years", through the prie-War operations at Darrell's
Island, to the Royal Air Force wartime activities at this important Atlantic
base. Included are the activites of the bases for the Fleet Air Arm, "HMS
Malabar" and the US Navy, to their final years of flying-boat operations
in 1964. A fine assortment of photographs has been included, plus a full
list of Annexes, Bibliography and an Index. Well worth the money!
- Peter
Berry
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