Author: Bowyer, Chaz,
Title: BOMBER GROUP AT WAR.
Description: Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1981, 1st edn., 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, half tone photo ills. throughout, oversize (12 9 9 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, in the 'At War' series, an account, based on personal anecdotes with numerous photographs, of Bomber Command's No. 5 Group in WW2, formed a core drawn from No. 3 Group in 1937 with its headquarters at Grantham (later Swinderby), it was part of the expansion of the Royal Air Force and became a major contributor to the bomber offensive in Europe, also responsible for some of the most dramatic and specialised bomber attacks, with appendices of Air Officers Commanding, Orders of Battle and Operational Airfields, lightly rubbed at tips, faint bump upper cnr. lower board, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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