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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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STRIKE HARD: A BOMBER AIRFIELD AT WAR. RAF DOWNHAM MARKET AND ITS SQUADRONS 1942-46.

By: Hilling, John B. Foreword by Group Captain T.G. 'Hamish' Mahaddie.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Stroud, Gloucestershire, Budding / Sutton: 1997

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 22481

ISBN: 1840150017

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

141 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). B&w photographs, maps, etc. "This is an account of one small cog in the machinery of the Second World War - the story of the RAF bomber airfield at Downham Market in Norfolk . Every night for three long years young men of RAF Bomber Command flew from this East Anglian airfield in their Stirlings, Lancasters and Mosquitoes to pound into dust the might of Nazi Germany. Their contribution towards winning the war was crucial, but the cost in precious lives and equipment was high: 160 aircraft and nearly 900 airmen were lost on operations. Downham Market was notabl...
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Keyword: Marham

BOMBER BARONS.

STRIKE HARD: A BOMBER AIRFIELD AT WAR. RAF DOWNHAM MARKET AND ITS SQUADRONS 1942-46.