Author: LIHOUR, MAURICE G.
Title: It's Dicey Flying Wimpys (Around Italian Skies) Operations with 205 Group 1944 - 1945.
Description: Second Impression Revised; 8vo; pp. 226; 12 pages of b/w photograph illustration, map; 3 appendices; stiff illustrated wrapper; a fine copy. (Surrey, England), Air Research Publications, (1993). During 1944 and 1945 the squadrons of 205 Group were launching air attacks from based in Italy. The Wimpy, as the Wellington was affectionately known, had been operational when war was declared and five years on they were still being taken into battle by their young crews. These men fought their war as much against the weather and lack of equipment as against the enemy.
Keywords: gmil General military aerial operations Italy base RAF Great Britain Royal Air Force
Title: It's Dicey Flying Wimpys (Around Italian Skies) Operations with 205 Group 1944 - 1945.
Description: Second Impression Revised; 8vo; pp. 226; 12 pages of b/w photograph illustration, map; 3 appendices; stiff illustrated wrapper; a fine copy. (Surrey, England), Air Research Publications, (1993). During 1944 and 1945 the squadrons of 205 Group were launching air attacks from based in Italy. The Wimpy, as the Wellington was affectionately known, had been operational when war was declared and five years on they were still being taken into battle by their young crews. These men fought their war as much against the weather and lack of equipment as against the enemy.
Keywords: gmil General military aerial operations Italy base RAF Great Britain Royal Air Force
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- Book number: 110891
- Book number: 110891