Windrow & Greene’s Militaria Directory and Sourcebook 1998

In 1940, as a boy of eight, a keen aircraft spotter, and an enthusiastic follower of the battles and campaigns of the early months of the Second World War, your correspondent was steadily acquiring three collections of militaria. One, a growing assortment of aerial combat souvenirs of the Battle of Britain, which was being waged overhead in the clear blue skies of south‐eastern England, large and small chunks of anti‐aircraft gun shrapnel, fins of incendiary bombs, expended cartridge cases, pieces of RAF and Luftwaffe aircraft fabric, and, most prized of all, white parachute cord. At one time I even found...