Bomber Squadron

Men Who Flew with XV Squadron

von Martyn Ford-Jones

272 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

XV Squadron bomber aircrew recounts the personal risks, emotions, and camaraderie of six years of frontline missions across multiple aircraft as WWII unfolds, revealing courage, motives, and resilience.During the Second World War, thousands of young men volunteered for service with the Royal Air Force. Some of these became fighter pilots, but a great many more were destined to be trained as members of bomber aircrew; pilots, navigators, wireless operators, bomb aimers, air gunners and flight engineers. On completion of their training a number of these men were posted to XV Squadron, a highly regarded frontline bomb squadron which had been formed during the First World War. Bomber Squadron --Men Who Flew with XV relates the personal stories of a small number of these men, giving an insight to their anxious moments when flying on operational sorties, staring death in the face in the form of enemy night-fighters and ground fire, and relaxing with them during their off-duty hours. The book also reveals the motivations, emotions and personal attitudes of these men, who flew into combat on an almost nightly basis. Their stories encompass the whole six years of the war, over which period XV Squadron flew a range of different bomber aircraft including Fairey Battles, Bristol Blenheims, Vickers Wellingtons, Short Stirlings and Avro Lancasters.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Krieg und Verteidigung Rüstungssektor und Streitkräfte Luftwaffe und Kriegsführung
• ISBN: 9781781557082
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2019
• Größe: 236 x 163 mm
• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books