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Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII Martin Bowman

Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII By Martin Bowman

Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII by Martin Bowman


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An informative selection of first-hand accounts, that Illustrates in words and images the experience of flying heavy bomber offensives during the Second World War.

Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII Summary

Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII by Martin Bowman

This book contains fourteen stirring accounts pieced together from interviews of what life flying as air-crew in World War Two bombing operations was really like. The storytellers are an eclectic mix of pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators and gunners who flew on operations in heavy bombers. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target, attacks by Luftwaffe night-fighters, often catastrophic damage to aircraft and the ensuing struggle to keep the machine airborne on the return trip to base. It tells of the comradeship between the crew and often the humour between them, often borne of fear. The gentle and unassuming narratives include 'Millennium'; 'One of Our Aircraft Is Missing'; Bomber's Moon; 'Bombing Berlin' 'The Ordeal Of Pilot Officer Romans DFC'; Last Man Out' operations on Whitleys and Halifaxes; Flying Officer 'X'; Stirlings; 'Rescue At Sea' 'The Incendiary Load's Alight'; 'The Night Of The Bombs' and 'The Kassel Raids of 1943' as well as BBC Broadcasts and stories by Allied war correspondents. Each of these accounts conveys the sense of purpose that these men felt in doing one of the most dangerous jobs of the war.It is a fitting tribute to those that survived and the many thousands who died in the struggle against Hitler's dreadful ambitions in Europe.

About Martin Bowman

Martin Bowman is one of Britain's best-known Second World War aviation historians and authors. His previous books have included works such as Legend of the Lancaster, Confounding the Reich, Duxford and the Big Wings, Clash of Eagles, Mosquito: Menacing the Reich and numerous titles in the exhaustive Air War series providing extensive coverage of operations carried out on D-Day and during the Market-Garden offensive at Arnhem. He lives in Norwich.

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GOR013622152
9781783831937
1783831936
Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII by Martin Bowman
Used - Like New
Hardback
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
2015-09-01
256
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