CONTENTS The Building of the Bridge Overture and Beginners First to Go: The Hudsons The Crossing of the Catalinas The Pattern in the Air The Ferry Service Grows Over the Top of the World A Search Party Went out The Spans of the Flying Bridge North Atlantic "Round the Parish": A North Atlantic Tour A Great Black Rock in the Arctic Records on the Northern Route Cargoes and Supercargoes A Dispatch for Mr. Churchill South Atlantic Three Thousand Miles to Africa "Up the Line": Middle East Supply Routes

CONTENTS Retreat First Monsoon The Three Fronts Monsoon 1943: Action in an Interval The Great Build-Up Spitfires: The Supreme Task Second Arakan: February 1944 Pork Sausage: March 1944 The Flap at Imphal "Surprising Happenings" in the North-East Aftermath and Prelude Fighters Bombers Arakan: January 1945 Mandalay Rangoon Victory

This bi-lingual (German-English) guide was compiled by the United Kingdom Air Ministry during World War II. It is divided into parts: Administrative and General Terms Aeronautical Terms Signals, Radar and Electrical Terms Flak Terms Motor Transport Terms with Appendix of M/T Abbreviations Abbreviations