Nightfighter questions

[brickhistory]

Couple of questions regarding nightfighters if you please:

1) What is your favorite book on the subject? I've got a decent collection regarding the subject, but am always on the look-out for more.

2) When do you consider the dividing time line from nightfighter to all weather fighter/interceptor?

3) Is it nightfighter or night fighter?

I appreciate any legitimate answers and look forward to any witty ones!

[Carnage Matey!]

1) I don't have one

2) About the start of monsoon season

3) I believe they prefer the term escort, or sometimes auntie.

One things for sure, once they've got you in their sights you need to evade them with the skills of a WW2 fighter pilot in any bar in Africa.:E

[henry crun]

brickhistory: You could look for "Scramble", I think it is still available at the UK dept. of the big river book place.

It is the story of a little known RAF pilot, Wing Commander J.R.D Braham, triple DSO, triple DFC, and AFC.

[stevef]

I'm sure you've already got these (both excellent books):
Night Fighter by Robert Rawnsley & C.F. Wright. (ISBN 0907579671)
Night Flyer by Lewis Brandon. (ISBN 0907579167)
On this side of the pond, we'd call them 'night fighters'.

[FirstFiveEighth]

......there is "Duel under the Stars". Can't remember the author, unfortunately.

Fascinating book. He describes trying to overcome most of the anti-night fighter innovations used by the RAF, and was attempting to defend Hamburg on the night "Window" was first used. He flew Me 110's throughout the war.

[India Four Two]

Two excellent books that contain information about night fighters, but are also a good read in their own right are:

Most Secret War by RV Jones

and

Instruments of Darkness by Alfred Price

[brickhistory]

Thank you for the replies, much appreciated.

For those interested, some other great night fighter reads are:

Pursuit Through Darkened Skies, Micheal Allen - triple DFC R/O's tale
The Other Battle, Peter Hinchcliffe - Luftwaffe side of the night
Fighter Nights, John Bennett - RAAF 456 Sq in WWII
Night Intruder, Jeremy Howard-Williams, contemporary of Rawnsley
Cover of Darkness, Rory Chisholm, contemporary of Rawnsley
Queen of the Midnight Skies, Papp & ?, USAAF night fighters, mainly P-61


Any one know of any others? How about from the Japanese, Russian, or others?