Title: Squadron 303
Author(s): Arkady Fiedler
Translation: Jarek Garlinski
Release year: 1942
Publisher: Peter Davies
Why in Database: Turtles appear twice in this book in the original, but only once in the English translation, in the fragment shown below.
But a single fighter squadron, every member a daredevil of aerial acrobatics and deadly in attack, had this mass of bombers as impotent and defenseless as a tortoise turned on to its back.