ROYAL AIR FORCE. Notes on tactical lessons of the Palestine rebellion, 1936. Jerusalem: Air Staff, H.Q., Royal Air Force, Palestine & Trans-Jordan, 1937.
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ROYAL AIR FORCE. Notes on tactical lessons of the Palestine rebellion, 1936. Jerusalem: Air Staff, H.Q., Royal Air Force, Palestine & Trans-Jordan, 1937.

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ROYAL AIR FORCE. Notes on tactical lessons of the Palestine rebellion, 1936. Jerusalem: Air Staff, H.Q., Royal Air Force, Palestine & Trans-Jordan, 1937.

Secret Royal Air Force document, limited to 150 copies, this being number 30 of 63 distributed to the Force Headquarters. This publication explains the lessons learned from British responses to the rebellion ‘which particularly relate to the employment and equipment of Air Forces and R.A.F. armoured cars’. Three appendices give details of military incidents in the period of the rebellion involving ambushes on British convoys and an Air Force attack against the rebels. Very scarce: no copies can be traced on WorldCat.

Folio (330 x 208mm). [3], 18ff. Cyclostyled typescript, printed on rectoes only (first leaf detached). Original printed wrappers (extremities lightly rubbed).