Author: KNOTT, RICHARD.
Title: Black Night For Bomber Command The Tragedy of 16 December 1943.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 407; pages of photograph illustrations; maps; appendicies , sources and bibliography, notes, index; dustjacket; a fine copy. (Great Britain), Pen & Sword Aviation, (2007). Bomber crews faced the grimmest of weather on the night of 16 December 1943. In the murky dusk nearly five hundred heavy bombers, almost entirely Lancasters, set out for Berlin from their bases in eastern England, from north Yorkshire to southern Cambridgeshire. They lifted off around 4pm to bomb the target four hours later and were expected to return at midnight. 328 aircrew lost their lives that night. This book relates the tragic circumstances of individual crews as they struggled to find their home bases in low cloud and fog.They were victims of the weather not the Germans.
Keywords: gmil British military aviation air force RAF Bomber WWII second world war two Berlin
Title: Black Night For Bomber Command The Tragedy of 16 December 1943.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 407; pages of photograph illustrations; maps; appendicies , sources and bibliography, notes, index; dustjacket; a fine copy. (Great Britain), Pen & Sword Aviation, (2007). Bomber crews faced the grimmest of weather on the night of 16 December 1943. In the murky dusk nearly five hundred heavy bombers, almost entirely Lancasters, set out for Berlin from their bases in eastern England, from north Yorkshire to southern Cambridgeshire. They lifted off around 4pm to bomb the target four hours later and were expected to return at midnight. 328 aircrew lost their lives that night. This book relates the tragic circumstances of individual crews as they struggled to find their home bases in low cloud and fog.They were victims of the weather not the Germans.
Keywords: gmil British military aviation air force RAF Bomber WWII second world war two Berlin
Price: AUD 75.00 = appr. US$ 51.89 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 108129
- Book number: 108129