With the collapse of the Iron Curtain, things changed in Europe and within NATO. No longer was there felt a need for the large standing military forces in Germany. This lead to a large withdrawl of forces and in some cases a total removal. That was the case of the RAF in Germany as the last squadrons departed in 2001, some 55 years after first being deployed.

Bill Taylor's book provides a detailed survey of RAF operations within Germany that takes the reader through the Berlin airlift, the formation of NATO, the Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis and the Czech invasion of 1968. All of the RAF's aircraft are here from the Spitfire to the Tornado.

Over 300 black and white and color photos are included in book. They are all here; Spits, Vampires, Tempests, Venoms, Hunters, Canberras, Lightnings, Harriers, Phantoms, Jaguars and Tornados. Everything that the RAF placed in the forefront of what it expected to be the main route of Soviet invasion, an event that thankfully, never happened.

Now that the mission is over, the full story can be told and it is a story that will find interest with the modeler and historian alike. I found the subject to be fascinating and I'm sure you will as well.

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