Author: OWEN, ROBERT; DARLOW, STEVE; FEAST, SEAN; THORNING, ARTHUR.
Title: Dam Busters: Failed To Return.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 128; text illustrated with numerous coloured and b/w. photographs, roll of honour, acknowledgements and notes, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Herts; Fighting High Publications; 2013. On the night of 16/17 May 1943 a select group of young RAF Bomber Command airmen carried out one of the most audacious and daring low level raids of the second world war. Nineteen aircrews of No. 617 Squadron, flying modified Avro Lancasters, each armed with a 'bouncing bomb', were detailed to attack specific dams, viewed as essential to Germany's war effort. Two were indeed breached in an extraordinary display of skill and courage, but at a cost of eight lancasters lost. Of the 56 airmen flying these aircraft, 53 were killed and 3 were captured.
Keywords: gmil general military aviation second world war ww2 dam busters
Title: Dam Busters: Failed To Return.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 128; text illustrated with numerous coloured and b/w. photographs, roll of honour, acknowledgements and notes, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Herts; Fighting High Publications; 2013. On the night of 16/17 May 1943 a select group of young RAF Bomber Command airmen carried out one of the most audacious and daring low level raids of the second world war. Nineteen aircrews of No. 617 Squadron, flying modified Avro Lancasters, each armed with a 'bouncing bomb', were detailed to attack specific dams, viewed as essential to Germany's war effort. Two were indeed breached in an extraordinary display of skill and courage, but at a cost of eight lancasters lost. Of the 56 airmen flying these aircraft, 53 were killed and 3 were captured.
Keywords: gmil general military aviation second world war ww2 dam busters
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- Book number: 108701
- Book number: 108701