Three's Company - An Illustrated History of No.3 (Fighter) Squadron RAF, by Jack Long

Brand New Book

This book is a lavishly illustrated history of one of the oldest squadrons in the RAF. No. 3 was formed by the Royal Flying Corps at Larkhill in 1912, and since then has served in the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Falklands, Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.

NO. 3 was one of the Royal Flying Corps’ first squadrons when it was formed at Larkhill in 1912 by Major Robert Brooke-Popham. The first squadron to be equipped with fixed-wing aircraft, it had a distinguished fighting record in both World Wars, with its battle honours ranging from Mons to modern Afghanistan via Neuve Chapelle, Loos, (1915); the Somme, (1916); Cambrai, (1917); the Somme again in 1918; the Battle of Britain (1940); Normandy, Arnhem ( 1944); the Falklands ( 1982); the Balkans (1990s); and Iraq (2003).

Generously illustrated, this book tells the story of all these operations and more and provides a proud record of one of the world’s most historic flying units.