Author: Charlwood, Don,
Title: NO MOON TONIGHT.
Description: Goodall, London, 2010, reprint, trade paperback, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo picorial ills., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the WW2 experiences of a Royal Australian Air Force observer/navigator with RAF Bomber Command. He was one of a group of 20 Australians trained under the Empire Training Scheme in Victoria and Canada. He describes how the crew of B-Beer met and decided to work together. They were posted to No 27 Operational Training Unit at Lichfield and as well as the operations they covered how they relaxed and explored their surroundings and of their hopes and dreams for the future. From training at Lichfield in Ansons and Wellingtons they moved on to a heavy conversion unit and full operations with 103 Squadron Bomber Command flying from Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire. Their first operation was to Bremen, the only time in a Wellington. The next was due to be Stettin in a Halifax but that was scrubbed because of bad weather. Lancasters arrived the following day and their first four-engine operation was to Frankfurt and then to Mannheim. Their first casualty was to their wireless operator from flak splinters after a mining operation in Copenhagen Sound. Operations continued with trips to Duisberg, Milan, multiple trips to Essen, etc. with time between operations to get to know local people and to investigate his British ancestors but also to keep track of the survivors of the original 20 Australians. Operations were counted off with other crews being lost even as they approached the mythical 30 and he was one of the very few who completed 30 operations, a little rubbed at extrems., roll and slant to lightly creased spine, edges tanned, good,

Keywords: war ww2 air raf raaf bomber halifax lancaster elsham wolds 103 squadron


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