Night & Day Bomber Offensive

Allied Airmen in Europe in World World II

Philip Kaplan, Jack Currie

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9781844154517
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783460519
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

For much of World War II England provided the only western European base from which the British and American air forces could take the war into Nazi-occupied Europe and Germany itself. The American Eighth and Ninth Air Forces struck enemy targets by day at great distances, often on raids of eight or nine hours duration, while the RAF flew most of its demanding missions at night.This highly illustrated book will convey what it was like for pilots, aircrew and ground crew during their wartime service. It not only takes the reader on typical USAAF and RAF raids, but it also depicts the work of the mechanics and fitters as they struggled to keep battered aircraft airworthy, how the medics coped with the countless wounded who returned from the raids and looks at where the airmen relaxed within the various bases or in the local villages and towns. It will include period and later images of the bases, the aircraft, memorials and relevant locations in Britain, France and Germany. It will be a vivid and powerful human expression of the bomber airmen's wartime experience.

INDEX

Abilene

Abbotts Ripton

Alice Hawthorn, The

Alconbury

Air Gunner

Ambrose, Stephen

Ambulance Service

American Eagle Club

American Melody Club

American Revolution

Amiens

Anstead, William

Archer, Randall

Arise My Love And Come

With Me

Arizona

Armstrong, Roger

Arnold, Henry H.

Ashmore, Alan

Askins, John

Atcham

AT-9

AT-10

AT-17

ATS

Auger Inn, The

Augusta

Auxiliary Fire Service

Aytoun, W.E.

Azevedo, Ralph

Bader, Douglas

BAD PENNY

Baessell, Colonel

Baird, James

Ball of Fire

Balzac, Honore

Banks, George

Barad, Robert

Bardney

Barfoot, Jim

Barker, General

Bartlett, Sy

Battle, Fairey

Battle of Hamburg, The

Basie, Count

Bassingbourn

Bedford

Beechcraft

Beethoven, Ludwig

Bedfordshire

Beck, Phyllis

Beicker, Hilmer

Bennett, Donald

Benningborough Hall

Berger, Carl

Berlin

Big Dog

Big Week

Bill of Rights

Binbrook

Bird, Larry

Birmingham

Bismarck, Otto

Blackpool

Black Thursday

Blake, William

Bland, Quentin

Blenheim, Bristol

Bluebird Washout and Cultural Society

Blue Bunny Suit

Blyton

Bober, Lou

Boise

Bolitho, Hector

Bomb Run

Bomber

Bomber Command

‘Bomber’ Harris

Bomber Pilot

Bomber Offensive, The

Bombing Offensive Against

Germany, The

Bombing of Nuremberg, The

Bonanaza, John

Bosshardt, Charles

Boston, Douglas

Bovingdon

Bowes-Lyons, Mrs

Bremen

Brennan, Dan

Brinkman, Philip

British Broadcasting Corporation

British Museum

Broadlands

Brooks, James

Brunswick

Bruntingthorpe

Buccaneer

Buccleugh, Duke

Buckeye Belle

Buckingham Palace

Buckinghamshire

Bulay

Bungay

Burchell, Sam

Bury St Edmunds

Button Nose

B-17 B-24

B-26

B-29

Caidin, Martin

Cambridge

Cambridgeshire

Campbell, James

Can I Get There By

Candlelight?

Carnaby

Carpenter, Don

Casablanca

Casper

Cassidy, James

Chelveston

City of Lincoln

Civil Defense

Cologne

Colles, John

Collier, Paul

Coltishall

Combat America

Combat Crew

Comer, John

Command Decision

Coningsby

Coombe House

Cooper, Alan

Cornwall

Countdown!

Coventry

Coward, Noël

Crackpot

Cranwell

Crew, The

Crisp, N.J.

Crosby, Bing

Cruse, Dick

Currie, Jack

Currie, Margaret

Currier, Donald

C-47

C-64

Dam Busters, The

D-Day Doll

Debden

Deenethorpe

Deering, George

Deighton, Len

Delaporta, Anthony

Delectable Doris

DeLisa, Cl...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Dedication
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• WELCOME TO BRITAIN
• THIS ENGLAND
• THE GEN
• GETTING AROUND
• KEEP ‘EM FLYING
• TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY AEROPLANE
• D FOR DOG
• PADDLEFEET
• WHAT A CLIMATE
• A GENTLE REPAST
• CURRIE’S NIGHT MOVES
• TENDER CARE
• QUALIFIED QUAIL
• LOCAL HEROES
• I’LL BE DOWN AT THE CLUB
• MOONLIGHT SERENADE
• I THINK I’M IN LOVE
• AT THE MOVIES
• RIGHT IN THE OLD PUCKER STRING
• TIME OUT
• VIBRATIONS
• RETURN TO GRAFTON UNDERWOOD
• Bibliography
• INDEX