Barry Griffin: 2 books

Very Unusual Air War

From Dunkirk to AFDU: The Diary and Log Book of Test Pilot Leonard Thorne 1940-45

by Leonard Thorne, Gill Griffin, Barry Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

The 20-year-old Len Thorne joined the RAF in May 1940. After two hectic tours of operational duty as a fighter pilot (including some desperately dangerous low-level flying at Dunkirk) he was posted to AFDU (Air Fighting Development Unit) and remained there as a test pilot for the rest of the war....

Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi

by Phyllis A. Morse, Ian W. Brown, Marvin T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The...