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BOMBER BARONS.

By: Bowyer, Chaz.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Leo Cooper: 2001

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 27030

ISBN: 085052802X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

222 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs. "By the end of the Second World War, a grim total of 55,000 air crew of Bomber Command has lost their lives. This figure comprised no less than seventy per cent of RAF fatalities. Yet, unlike their more glamorous fighter pilot colleagues, very few bomber pilots or crewmen were familiar household names to the general public. However, within the ranks of the RAF itself, some individuals stood out gaining high reputations for their courage and leadership, a respect achieved regardless of the decorations they had won or the number of sorties flo...
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FIRE BY NIGHT: THE STORY OF ONE PATHFINDER CREW & BLACK THURSDAY, 16th/17th DECEMBER 1943.

By: Gray, Jennie.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Grub Street: 2003

Seller ID: 20168

ISBN: 1904010377

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

182 pp, large 8vo (9 1/8" H). B&w plates. "When she was very young, the author was captivated by the story her father, Joe Mack, repeatedly told her about his astonishing rescue from a crashed and burning Lancaster one night in 1943. As an adult she decided to find out what happened to his aircraft and the countless others returning from operations that same dreadful night and to record it for posterity. She writes from the heart, honestly and at times lyrically and her thorough research uncovers the harsh realities of warfare, the failure of procedures and, worst of all, her father's shockin...
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FLYING THROUGH FIRE: FIDO - THE FOGBUSTERS OF WORLD WAR TWO.

By: Williams, Geoffrey. Foreword by Sir Michael Beetham.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Grange: 1996

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 29191

ISBN: 1856279006

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

228 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings/plans. "In the early years of (World War II), RAF bomber crews, who frequently endured the opposition of German nightfighters and flak, returned home only to discover their airfields completely fog-bound. Desperately short of fuel and often disabled by severe battle damage, the many crashlandings that resulted took a savage toll in valuable aircraft and crews. Prompted by Winston Churchill, the challenge to overcome this deadly hazard was taken up by the government's Petroleum Warfare Department and the result was the development of FIDO - Fog In...
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Keyword: Graveley

BOMBER BARONS.

FIRE BY NIGHT: THE STORY OF ONE PATHFINDER CREW & BLACK THURSDAY, 16th/17th DECEMBER 1943.

FLYING THROUGH FIRE: FIDO - THE FOGBUSTERS OF WORLD WAR TWO.