The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavors and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate blue uniform. Martin Francis provides the first scholarly study of the place of the flyer in British culture during the Second World War. Examining the lives of RAF personnel, and their popular representation in literary and