Heroes of Bomber Command - Yorkshire
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Heroes of Bomber Command - Yorkshire by Michael Wadsworth
This is the story of the heroes of Bomber Command in Yorkshire - brave young men who came from all over the world to join Yorkshire squadrons during World War II. The exploits, lives, and in all too many cases deaths of these men, have left a powerful torch to bear for everyone who cares about freedom. Yorkshire was home to Bomber Command's 4 Group, which had operational bases at Pocklington, Elvington, Melbourne, Full Sutton, Breighton, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Driffield, Lissett, Snaith, Burn and Leconfield. At the beginning of 1943 they were joined by 6 Group, manned almost entirely by the Royal Canadian Air Force, with bases at Linton-on-Ouse, East Moor, Tholthorpe, Leeming, Topcliffe, Dalton and Skipton-on-Swale, with another two bases at Middleton St George and Croft in County Durham. From these airfields, young men, all volunteers with an average age of 22, flew dangerous and often suicidal missions into the dark, cold, smoke-filled skies above Germany. Between 1939 and 1945, Bomber Command suffered no less than 55,888 fatalities from a total of 100,000 men. Yorkshire squadrons alone lost 18,000 aircrew. During this time, 21 Victoria Crosses were awarded to members of Bomber Command, three of which went to men serving in Yorkshire. In this meticulously researched, fully illustrated book the author describes the air war in Yorkshire, and the young men who flew night after night against desperate odds. The subject is brought to life with detailed accounts, alongside photos of the men themselves and their aircraft.Andrew Pickles is a methodologist and statistician with a special interest in developmental psychopathology. His work spans genetics to long-term cohort and follow-up studies. Currently at the University of Manchester, he was previously senior statistician at the MRC Child Psychiatry Unit at the
Institute of Psychiatry, London. Barbara Maughan's research focuses on psychosocial risks for psychiatric disorders in childhood, and on continuities and discontinuities between disorder in childhood and in adult life. Michael Wadsworth has directed and worked on the first British national birth
control cohort study (the 1946 cohort), developing it as a resource of data on health throughout life and health change with age.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846740442 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846740444 |
| Title | Heroes of Bomber Command - Yorkshire |
| Author | Michael Wadsworth |
| Series | Second World War Aviation History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Countryside Books |
| Year published | 2017-06-19 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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