Author: McLachlan, Ian,
Title: NIGHT OF THE INTRUDERS - First-hand accounts chronicling the slaughter of homeward bound USAAF Mission 311.
Description: Patrick Stephens / Haynes, Yeovil, 1994, reprint, 232pp, half tone photo ills., line drawings, maps, facsimiles and diagrams in text, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of Mission 311 by the USAAF 8th Air Force on 22nd April 1944, to attack the railway marshalling yards at Hamm in Germany with a view to limiting the ease of movement and so support the forthcoming Normandy invasion. The evening Mission was so planned that the day bombers and their fighter protection would return after dark. This meant that as well as facing the Luftwaffe fighters over their own terrotory, night fighters were able to join the bomber stream unseen and bring many down within sight of their home bases, loosely inserted two TLS from the author (one signed and one initialled), together with some other notes on the content, very slightly cocked, edges tanned, light marks and small ownership label to endpapers, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., nicks to spine ends repaired to reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 usaaf mission 311 8th air force hamm


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