Author: Jones, W. E.,
Title: BOMBER INTELLIGENCE - 103, 150, 166, 170 Squadrons Operations and Techniques '42 - '45.
Description: Midland Counties Publications, Earl Shilton, 1983, 1st edn.,304pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., map and diagrams in text, maps at coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the author served as RAF intelligence officer in WW2 and describes his experiences between 1942 and 1945 with 103 Squadron at Elsham Wolds (Halifaxes), 166 Squadron at Kirmington (Wellingtons and Lancasters), 150 Squadron at Fiskerton (Lancasters) and 150/170 Squadrons at Hemswell (Lancasters) and also flew on several operations, covering briefing and de-briefing of missions, target marking and night photography methods, radio and radar aids and counter-measures, and taking part in a bombing raid on Heligoland and in Operation manna runs dropping food the Dutch of Rotterdam and The Hague, etc., with appendices listing the missions flown and aircraft losses by the respective squadrons, brief squadron histories, the variations of bomb loads dependent on target distance and fuel required, a detailed glossary, etc., edges stanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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