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Men of the Bombers: Remarkable Incidents in World War Ii Ralph Barker

Men of the Bombers: Remarkable Incidents in World War Ii By Ralph Barker

Men of the Bombers: Remarkable Incidents in World War Ii by Ralph Barker


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Men of the Bombers: Remarkable Incidents in World War Ii by Ralph Barker

This is a selection of ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two. It covers operations of varying natures, such as one of the first leaflet dropping raids during the 'Phoney War' when the elderly Whitley bomber proved to be a nightmare on long flights and when the crews suffered more from lack of oxygen and heating than from enemy action. The fascinating story of a famous MP who used his influence to become a tail gunner at the age of 55 and who lost his life trying to stop German Panzers before Dunkirk proves remarkable reading and a famous name in cricket, Bill Edrich, recounts his days flying low-level daylight raids in Bristol Blenheims during 1941. Then there is a young New Zealander, Jimmy Ward, who climbed out onto a Wellington bomber's wing at considerable altitude to extinguish an engine fire and how despite his own modesty he was awarded a VC. Other stories tell of amazing escapes from burning aircraft, the heroism of aircrew who sacrificed their own lives so that others may survive and how a mid-upper gunner took the controls of a Mitchell B-25 to pilot her safely home.

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GOR006855835
9781844151578
1844151573
Men of the Bombers: Remarkable Incidents in World War Ii by Ralph Barker
Used - Well Read
Hardback
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
20040714
224
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