Spitfire floatplane fiction books

[Stonewall]

I remember reading a series of fictional books written about Spitfire floatplanes operating in the Mediterranean in my youth.
I must have borrowed these from the school library in the 1960's time period.
I have searched every way that I know on the internet with no results .

I am hoping that some one here has read the same books and still remembers the titles and author .
Or knows a better search method for older books.

Thank you.

Glenn

[Nick Beale]

It may have been in "Spitfire: Story of a Famous Fighter" by Bruce Robertson (Harleyford Publications, 1962). I read it at an early age and I vaguely remember something about the floatplane Spit being tested from the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt.

[Stonewall]

No this was a fictional story of a squadron of Spitfire float planes which operated from islands in the Med.
There were several books in the series.

Glenn

[Nick Beale]

One of this series, perhaps?

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/j/robert-jackson/

[Orwell1984]

While it's not what you're looking for, Commando Comics has a floatplane Spitfire title.

The Aegean Sea, lying between Greece and Turkey is a huge expanse of bright blue water peppered with tiny islands. In 1943, the area was so far away from any British air base that Axis pilots there had nothing to worry about.

Until, that was, a British planner decided to stick a pair of floats on a Spitfire and set up a secret base slap bang in the middle of it. For pilot Johnny Cooper the fun was about to begin.

http://www.commandocomics.com/collec...155-aegean-ace

[Stonewall]

Interesting links !

Thank you Nick.
You are helping a LOT.

Excellent Orwell1984 - that was the basic concept behind these books.
Unfortunately that is all I can remember except that I enjoyed reading them.

I remembered this book again upon recently reading the Spitfire floatplane tests in Egypt .

"During training on the Egyptian lake, the pilots found that the floats leaked more than hoped and the aircraft had to be hauled out of the water to allow the floats to drain."
http://aviationtrivia.blogspot.ca/20...-reginald.html

The search continues .
Any further links-ideas will be appreciated.


Glenn