In the two separate sections of this book the author attempts to delve deeper into the atmosphere of particular chosen units throughout the war years, so as to evoke the life of a Squadron. The book is not so much a history of machinery as an attempt to underline the human dimension of the Second World War.
Part 2 Fighter Sad. An evocation of what it was like to serve on a RAF fighter squadron between 1939 and 1945. Drawing mainly from past members of 85 squadron and their families this is a 'scrapbook' of an age portraying how men and women in RAF uniform worked fought, played and died through the war years. Information taken from Official reports, letters, diaries and mementoes describes how they saw themselves and how others saw them.