Battle Orders by George Culling

Battle Orders by George Culling

A young Lancaster crew's battles over the skies of Germany in a series of highly-dangerous operations. Every event described in this fictional account actually occurred, often many times. Ploughing through skies pockmarked with the smoke of exploding shells from anti-aircraft guns, and coned by dozens of searchlights, they also faced the bullets and canon shells of night fighters.

A different kind of danger, but sometimes no less deadly, often took place in appalling weather conditions. Caught, for instance, in a massive cumulonimbus cloud their aircraft might be battered by hailstones while being tossed up and down hundreds of feet in vicious convection currents, with ice forming up to six inches thick on the wings, and threatening its ability to remain airborne.

George Culling is a nonagenarian who has belatedly set down his accounts of bizarre experiences at war when, as a 19-year-old, he navigated a Lancaster on flights of up to 10 hours using only the stars to plot their position. He became an expert in astro-navigation after the war ended before spending a long career in teaching.

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ISBN 13	9781911593775
ISBN 10	1911593773
Title	Battle Orders
Author	George Culling
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Arena Books
Year published	2020-09-22
Number of pages	284
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.