The RAF in Arizona
Falcon Field 1941-1945
Jim Dawson
The RAF In Arizona
Falcon Field
1941-1945
by
Jim Dawson
268 pages, 180 photographs,
8 1/2 X 11, hardbound
excellent research
and documentation
ISBN: 0-9719127-1-8
Price $38.50 USD plus shipping
In one of the most audacious experiments of WWII – an experiment born of the greatest necessity, a Hollywood corporation hired
civilian pilots to teach British aviation cadets how to fly United States Army
airplanes.
Training began in June 1941 – six months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor officially brought
America into the war.
More than 2000 Royal Air Force (RAF) cadets trained at Falcon Field in Mesa,
Arizona, during WWII. Those cadets spent over 300,000 hours in the air and flew
a distance of forty-five million miles.
That training would eventually put them in the fighters and bombers over France
and Germany where their final exam would be administrated by the German
Luftwaffe.
Over 180 photographs and dozens of first-hand accounts complement this memorable exploration into the joint effort made by Great
Britain and the United States to fill the immense need for trained RAF pilots.
Class rosters, reconstructed in the Appendices, detail the WWII activities of
Falcon graduates and give long overdue credit in print to those who trained at
Falcon.
Below are a few sample pages
