>>>instead of bitching and moaning,<<<
Thank you for your kind observation, ORAC. I'm assuming that, with the stratospheric number of posts you have made, that you may well had a bit of a bitch and moan yourself.
But, of course, the concept of this forum is not to get personal but to contribute usefully to the debate.
OK, so I commented on the fact that, in some minds, there is only one Air Force. Fact.
All I was doing was, yet again, proffering a point of view which in the future will doubtless also be taken up by the Army !
Still I have no wish to start a Third World War and I won't be countering any further barbed remarks you may feel you have to make.
However, on one point you are correct; stick to the question.
So, for starters, how about "Wings over Suez" Brian Cull.(Grub Street), "Fly Navy.The View from the cockpit. 1945-2000" Charles Manning. (Leo Cooper) and the numerous publications in connection with the Falklands Air War ?