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Hurricanes Over Singapore: RAF, RNZAF and NEI Fighters in Action Against the Japanese Over the Island and the Netherlands East Indies, 1942

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Hurricanes were to save the world in 1942, or at least the British and Dutch Far East. This was not to be. Much in the same lines as "Buffaloes over Singapore", this book takes an in-depth, day-by-day look on Hurricane operations in the same theater. Again, there is not much in the way of analysis or comments, but the matter-of-fact accounts of the pilots who undertook operations in the fast-crumbling situation over Java and Singapore. The drama and the inevitability of fate, like a Greek tragedy, are readily felt as the campaign draws to its inescapable end. There is a very interesting photo section made up of the very few period pictures existing. There is a whole chapter on the life of surviving pilots as PoWs. Appendices show the complete Hurricane victory claims, the casualties, and the origins and fate of every single airframe serving with 232 (P), 232, 258, 242, and 605 Sqns. Ideal companion to the former "Buffaloes..." and indispensable component of any collection of books on the Pacific war.

I found it hard to put this book down, there has been so little coverage of the war in the air over Singapore. I am definitely going to order the first book in the series, "Buffaloes Over Singapore", also.