FIRST EDITION: Murricane’s Men; Scottish Air Division 1947 – 1957 By Giles Davies

Including records and photographs of time the Division spent in Malta. ‘Salute to Adventurers’ reads ‘Some anonymous character, with an over – developed sense for the dramatic wrote at the end of the war: The incredible gallantry of the Men of the Naval Air Arm will long add lustre to the annals of British naval history. Their unflinching acceptance of the fight against impossible odds, their cool courage in the face of death, their high resolution and loyalty to duty make certain that for ever more there will be no prouder title than that of Naval Airman’ and went on to say ‘ What in years to come as you sit on your couch in vacant mood, will you want to remember about your erstwhile comrades in arms?. As far as the writer is concerned – and he speaks with the prescience of a man at the head of the queue for the bowler hat issue – he will remember the boys not by the things they did right, nearly as much as by the things they did wrong and beautifully wrong