BRITISH AVIATION ARCHAEOLOGICAL COUNCILResearch sources and links
In the following lists of books, a unit or airfield may appear in chapters or sections rather than the whole book.
Many of these books are out of print. These books are NOT available from BAAC, but the best place to start tracking a title down is
through the various online booksellers. Please email us if you know of any books with chapters about specific squadrons,
other units or airfields - particularly biographical ones! If you've read any books listed under unknown RAF units, please email which units are mentioned.
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The following list gives details of books which are either entirely about or give reference to specific RAF misc units.
No.14 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit
- Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
No.15 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit
- T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)
No.1 Air Armament School
- J R Bushby 'Gunner's moon' (Ian Allen 1972)
No.1 Air Observer School
- John Iverach 'Chronicles of a nervous navigator' (Iverach ISBN 1-55056-178-2)
No.7 Air Observer School
- Peter Russell 'Flying in defiance of the Reich' (Pen & Sword 2007)
No.7 Air School
- Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
No.22 Air School
- Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
No.1 Bombing & Gunnery School
- John Iverach 'Chronicles of a nervous navigator' (Iverach ISBN 1-55056-178-2)
No.3 Bombing & Gunnery School
- Clayton Moore 'Lancaster crew'
No.9 Elementary Flying Training School
- T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Cunderdin, Western Australia) (Scotland 2007)
No.13 Elementary Flying Training School
- T Spooner 'Clean Sweep: Life of Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom' (Crecy 1994)
No.1 Ferry Unit
- K B McGlashan 'Down to earth: a fighter pilot's experiences of surviving Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, Dieppe and D-Day' (1 FU 1-6/1946)
No.1 Fighter and Gunnery School
- Alex Revell 'Fighter aces! The Constable Maxwell brothers' (WW1) (Pen & Sword 2010)
No.8 Flying Training School
- John Shipman 'One of The Few' (instructor at Montrose) (Pen & Sword 2008)
No.2 Group
- Martin Bowman 'The Reich Intruders' (Pen & Sword 2005)
- M J F Bowyer '2 Group RAF: 1936-45' (Faber 1974)
- M Henry 'Air gunner'
- L Hunt 'Short history of No.2 Group RAF: from Hind to Hunter' (Hunt c1968)
No.3 Group
- Ward/ Smith '3 Group Bomber Command: an operational record' (Pen & Sword 2008)
No.4 Group
- Blanchett 'From Hull, Hell and Halifax' (reprinted 2006)
- G L Donnelly 'The Whitley Boys' (Air Research 1999)
- Ken Marshall 'The pendulum and the scythe' (Air Research)
No.5 Group
- Lawrence '5 Bomber Group RAF' (Chivers 1951)
- Ward '5 Group Bomber Command: an operational record' (Pen & Sword 2007)
No.6 Group
- Dunmore & Carter 'Reap the whirlwind: the untold story of 6 Group, Canadas bomber force of World War 2' (Crecy 1992)
- Ward '6 Group Bomber Command: an operational record' (Pen & Sword 2010)
No.8 Group
- Musgrove 'Pathfinder Force: a history of 8 Group' (Macdonald 1976)
No.9 Group
- Bamford/ Collier 'Eyes of the night: the air defence of north-western England 1940-43' (2006)
No.11 Group
- Cooksley '1940: the story of 11 Group, Fighter Command' (Hale, 1983)
No.12 Group
- Bill Simpson 'Spitfire dive-bombers versus the V2' (Pen & Sword 2007)
No.100 Group
- M Bowman & T Cushing 'Confounding the Reich' (2005)
- M Bowman '100 Group (Bomber Support)' (Pen & Sword 2006)
- L Brettingham 'Even when the sparrows are walking: 100 Bomber Support Group 1943-45' (Gopher 2001)
- G Heilig 'The cry of the Nightjar' (1997)
- Streetly 'Counfound and Destroy' (Jane's 1985)
No.205 Group
- M Lihou 'Out of the Italian night: Wellington bomber operations 1944-45' (Also published as 'Its dicey flying Wimpeys' Pentland Press 2000, Airlife 2006)
- McDonald 'Through darkness to light: 205 Group raids from Italy into Roumania' (Images 1994)
No.212 Group
- Cross & Orange 'Straight and level: ACM Sir Kenneth Cross' (Grub St 1993)
No.242 Group
- Cross & Orange 'Straight and level: ACM Sir Kenneth Cross' (Grub St 1993)
No.1651 Heavy Conversion Unit
- Jack Dickinson 'The time of my life: life with 218 & 623 Sqns'
- Richard Stowers 'Bomber Baron: W/C James Fraser Baron' (Instructor 1942)
No.1652 Heavy Conversion Unit
- T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)
- Tom Wingham 'Halifax down! On the run from the Gestapo, 1944' (Grub St, 2009)
No.1658 Heavy Conversion Unit
- Lunn & Arbon 'Aircraft down III: RAF Riccall & 1658 HCU' (Hardwick 1989)
No.1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
- Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
No.1661 Heavy Conversion Unit
- Clayton Moore 'Lancaster crew'
No.1662 Heavy Conversion Unit
- J.Currie 'Mosquito Victory' (Goodall 1983)
No.1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
- Tom Wingham 'Halifax down! On the run from the Gestapo, 1944' (Grub St, 2009)
No.1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
- P Drummond 'The Driving Force: memoirs of wartime WAAF drivers'
No.21 Maintenance Unit
- V Hardy 'Voices from the Explosion: RAF Fauld, the World's Largest Accidental Blast, 1944' (Guidelines Books 2012)
No.28 Maintenance Unit
- L Neville 'Return to Buxton: 28 MU RAF Harpur Hill' (Self published 2002)
No.1409 Meteorological flight
- J.Currie 'Mosquito Victory' (Goodall 1983)
- Joe Patient 'Pilot - a tale of high adventure' (Leo Cooper ISBN 0 85052 544 6)
No.1655 Mosquito Conversion Unit
- Joe Patient 'Pilot - a tale of high adventure' (Leo Cooper ISBN 0 85052 544 6)
- T Spooner 'Clean Sweep: Life of Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom' (1655 MTU Finmere and Warboys) (Crecy 1994)
No.41 Operational Training School
- Ince 'Brotherhood of the skies' (1944) (2010)
No.7 Operational Training Unit
- H Thomas & A Henshaw 'Spirit of the blue: Peter Ayerst, a fighter pilots story' (The History Press)
No.10 Operational Training Unit
- R. Pinkham 'On wings of fortune' (Toppan 2010)
- T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)
No.11 Operational Training Unit
- Richard Stowers 'Bomber Baron: W/C James Fraser Baron' (Instructor 1943)
No.12 Operational Training Unit
- Jack Dickinson 'The time of my life: life with 218 & 623 Sqns'
- Murray Pedan 'A thousand shall fall'
- Bill Randle 'Blue skies & dark nights'
- D Reader 'A village in wartime: the story of RAF Chipping Warden' (1995)
- Albert & Ian Smith 'Mosquito Pathfinder' (Crecy Publishing 2004)
No.13 Operational Training Unit
- T Perry Evans 'Squadron Leader Tommy Broom DFC' (instructor 1941) (Pen & Sword 2007)
- T Spooner 'Clean Sweep: Life of Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom' (Crecy 1994)
No.14 Operational Training Unit
- T G Mahaddie 'Hamish' (Autobiographical; 1940-42) (Ian Allen 1989)
No.16 Operational Training Unit
- Clayton Moore 'Lancaster crew'
No.19 Operational Training Unit
- Freddie Clark 'Peter Five' (Independent Books 1993 ISBN 1 872836 04 6)
- G L Donnelly 'A quest for wings' (Tempus 2000)
No.20 Operational Training Unit
- Bill Randle 'Blue skies & dark nights'
- Richard Stowers 'Bomber Baron: W/C James Fraser Baron' (20 OTU 1941)
No.21 Operational Training Unit
- Christopher Jary 'Portrait of a bomber pilot' (Sidney Jary 1990)
- Jack Rodgers 'Navigators Log' (Merlin Books 1985)
No.22 Operational Training Unit
- J Pratley 'Wings over Wellesbourne: Vol.1 1940-42'
- J Pratley 'Wings over Wellesbourne: Vol.2 1943 - 2013' (2013)
No.23 Operational Training Unit
- Bill Randle 'Blue skies & dark nights'
No.24 Operational Training Unit
- David Hodgson 'Letters from a bomber pilot' (Thames Methuen 1985)
- Brian Kedward 'Angry Skies across the vale' (B Kedward)
No.25 Operational Training Unit
- J R Bushby 'Gunner's moon' (Ian Allen 1972)
No.26 Operational Training Unit
- Michael Warth 'Wings over Wing' (The Book Castle, Dunstable ISBN 1 903747 05 8)
No.27 Operational Training Unit
- D Charlwood 'No moon tonight' (Burgewood Books 2006)
- D Charlwood 'Journeys into night' (Burgewood Books 2006)
- Malcolm Giddings 'Bomber base: a history of RAF Lichfield & Church Broughton' (Colerne Debden 1986)
- Edwin Wheeler 'Just to get a bed' (Square One 1990)
No.31 Operational Training Unit
- John Iverach 'Chronicles of a nervous navigator' (Iverach ISBN 1-55056-178-2)
No.54 Operational Training Unit
- K B McGlashan 'Down to earth: a fighter pilot's experiences of surviving Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, Dieppe and D-Day' (Instructor 1946-48)
- Jack Thompson 'RAF Charterhall' (Crecy)
No.57 Operational Training Unit
- John Freeborn 'Tiger Club' (1941) (Pen & Sword 2009)
No.60 Operational Training Unit
- K B McGlashan 'Down to earth: a fighter pilot's experiences of surviving Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, Dieppe and D-Day' (Instructor 11/41-7/1942)
No.61 Operational Training Unit
- P Brown 'Honour restored'
No.71 Operational Training Unit
- Peter Holloway 'Desert Wings - a Hurricane pilot in the western desert' (Melverly Publishing 2001)
No.81 Operational Training Unit
- P Drummond 'The Driving Force: memoirs of wartime WAAF drivers'
No.82 Operational Training Unit
- R. Pinkham 'On wings of fortune' (Toppan 2010)
No.85 Operational Training Unit
- V A Winter 'Resurgam: The Story of Flight Lieutenant G L Nowell' (c1980)
No.6 Operational Training Unit, RAAF
- J Lever 'No 6 OTU, base torpedo unit and RAAF Beaufort torpedo operations' (1999)
No.11 Radio School
- P Bodle & B Boulter 'Mosquito to Berlin' (instructor 1943) (Pen & Sword 2007)
No.4 Service Flying Training School
- T Scotland 'Voice from the Stars' (Scotland 2007)
No.14 Service Flying Training School
- T Spooner 'Clean Sweep: Life of Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom' (Crecy 1994)
No.34 Service Flying Training School
- D Carter 'Prairie Wings: 34 Service Flying Training School Medicine Hat 1941-44' (Carter)
No.5 Wing
- P Joubert 'The fated sky: autobiography of ACM Sir Philip Joubert' (Hutchinson 1952)
No.80 Wing
- Brettingham 'Beam Benders' (Midland Counties 1997)
No.244 Wing
- King 'A willingness to die: memories from Fighter Command' (2007)
No.252 Wing
- Cross & Orange 'Straight and level: ACM Sir Kenneth Cross' (Grub St 1993)
No.258 Wing
- Cross & Orange 'Straight and level: ACM Sir Kenneth Cross' (Grub St 1993)
Central Flying School
- B Pegg 'Sent flying' (1927-30) Macdonald 1959)
- John Shipman 'One of The Few' (instructor) (Pen & Sword 2008)
- Taylor 'CFS: Birthplace of air power' (Putnam 1956)
Central Gunnery School
- A Deere 'Nine Lives' (Autobiographical; late WW2) (Wingham Press 1991)
Fighter Command Night Experimental Unit
- J Howard-Williams 'Night Intruder' (David & Charles/ Book Club, 1976)
Independent Force
- Rennles 'Independent Force: war diary of the daylight squadrons... June-November 1918' (on the Western Front)
