Tales From The Frontline – The Middle East Hunter Squadrons

Having passed-out from Boy Entrant training in December 1959, Ray spent the following two years servicing Vampire trainers at the Central Flying School (CFS), RAF Little Rissington. In April 1962, Ray left Little Rissington and joined thirty fellow airmen for a voyage out to Aden aboard HMT Nevassa on her last sailing as a troopship. Posted to 8 Squadron at RAF Khormaksar, he spent the next two years living and working in the torrid heat of this desert outpost. It had its compensations, however, the opportunity not only to experience life on a busy front-line operational squadron while working on ground attack and fighter reconnaissance versions of the Hawker Hunter.  It was against this background that Ray wrote his first book on RAF Middle East Command operations, Hunters over Arabia.  Concentrating on the activities of the Command’s strike force, it is based on official records produced at the time and since held at the National Archives in Kew. This new book is a fully illustrated companion volume that comprises anecdotes, stories and experiences of life on the Hunter squadrons as told by the pilots and airmen who flew and maintained the Hunter during its twelve-year tenure in Arabia.

AUTHOR – Ray Deacon

PUBLISHER – Pen & Sword

FORMAT – Hardback

PAGES – 372

PUBLISHED – 2020

ISBN – 978 1 52672 146 4