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Of the 7,953 Bomber Command aircraft lost on night operations during World War II, an estimated 5,833 fell victim to Luftwaffe night fighters. In this detailed re-enactment of the air war over Western Europe and the raids flown by the men of RAF Bomber Command, the author has pieced together official data and the words and memories of the pilots and air crew who took part in 15 chapters detailing many unique experiences during the night bombing raids that were hurled against Hitler's war machine. They span the period between November 1939 and 1945 and the stories include The First 1,000 Bomber Raid; Mine Laying in Danzig Bay; Warriors For The Working Day and Twelve Lancasters went for Augsburg. These truly epic stories are an appropriate epitaph to the men of RAF Bomber Command.
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- Title
- Introduction
- 1 Flight Lieutenant Roderick Learoyd
- 2 Frightened by a Dragon, Geoffrey Cole
- 3 The Sergeant’s Story, ‘A Wing Commander’
- 4 A Trip over Germany, Pilot Officer Andrew A. Law
- 5 Twelve Lancasters went for Augsburg, Squadron Leader J.D. Nettleton
- 6 ‘Millennium’ – The First 1,000-Bomber Raid, Victor Arthur Martin
- 7 ‘The Story of the Watch’, Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Hall ‘Pop’ Porter
- 8 The First Four Liberators
- 9 Home on a Wing and a Prayer, Leonard Gribble
- 10 Mine Laying in Danzig Bay, Sergeant ‘Nick’ Carter
- 11 ‘F for Firkin’
- 12 One of the Dambusters
- 13 Nearer my God to Thee, Frederick John Coleman
- 14 The Valley of Death
- 15 Horses for Courses, Arthur Taylor
- 16 Joining the Caterpillar Club
- 17 Aussies Over Europe – the Second World War’s Bloodiest Air Campaign, Rollo Kingsford-Smith DSO AM DFC
- 18 A Midsummer Night’s Dip in the Baltic
- 19 The Big Raids, Pilot Officer John A. Martin DFC
- 20 ‘Sunny’
- 21 The Skies over Mailly-le-Camp, Sidney Lipman
- 22 Friday the 13th
- 23 ‘Ted’ the Lad
- 24 Despite the Elements, Roy Simmonds
- 25 On His Majesty’s Service
- 26 The Good Companions
- 27 ‘Sunshine To Sadness’, Terence C. Cartwright
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- Copyright
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