A Bomber Crew Mystery

Author : David Price
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473870488
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bomber Crew Mystery written by David Price and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An antique trophy inspires a quest to uncover the history of an outstanding crew of WWII airmen who first flew into combat on D-Day. After discovering a discarded trophy in an Edinburgh antique shop, author David Price endeavored to tell the stories of the men whose names had been engraved upon it. Praised as ‘Outstanding Crew of the Month’, the members of 388th Bombardment Group set out on their very first mission on June 6, 1944—D-Day. This baptism of fire heralded the start of an illustrious career in battle. During August and September of 1944, they took part in over thirty perilous missions. And yet the details of their endeavors have largely been forgotten. Here, the history of 388th Bombardment Group’s service is told in great detail from interviews with each surviving member of the group, together with family members, in an effort to glean more information about their wartime deeds, and to reunite them with the trophy that they won in the midst of it. A Bomber Crew Mystery serves as a poignant and evocative tribute to the 388th Bombardment Group, as well as all those who fought in the skies of the Second World War.

Author : David Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473870499
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bomber Crew Mystery written by David Price and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Price
Publisher : Apollo
ISBN 13 : 1789542715
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crew written by David Price and published by Apollo. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crew specifically follows Flying Officer Jim Comans and his crewmen from their enlistment as volunteers, through training and into operational service. The Comans crew flew forty-five hazardous bombing missions - mostly deep into Germany at night - through the winter of 1943 to the summer of 1944. The Crew recounts the intimate, personal testimonies to the author of Wing Commander Ken Cook who served as Bomb Aimer with the Comans crew. At ninety-five Ken Cook is the crew's last survivor. Enlisting in RAF Bomber Command at nineteen his extraordinary story brings a moving insight into the bombing campaign. His experiences, particularly during the Battle of Berlin, highlight the extreme danger each bomber crew faced. With Bomber Command's casualty rate of over 44%, the book describes how the airmen overcame immense physical and mental challenges to survive. There are now very few surviving RAF Bomber Command airmen from the Second World War. The Crew will be one of the final eyewitness testimonies to a momentous time in our history.

Author : David Price
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789542693
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crew written by David Price and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command. ****************************** The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war's end. Gloucestershire-born bomb aimer Ken Cook, hard-bitten Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator Don Bowes, Upper Gunner George Widdis, Tail Gunner 'Jock' Bolland, Flight Engineer Ken Randle and Radio Operator Roy Woollford were seven ordinary young men living in extraordinary times, risking their lives in freedom's cause in the dark skies above Hitler's Reich. From their earliest beginnings – in places as far apart as a Cotswold village and the suburbs of Sydney – through the adventure of training in North America and the dread and danger of the forty-five bombing raids they flew with 97 Squadron, David Price describes the crew's wartime experiences with human sympathy allied to a secure technical understanding of one of the RAF's most iconic aircraft. The drama and anxiety of individual missions – to Kassel, Munich and Augsburg as well as Berlin – is evoked with thrilling immediacy; while the military events and strategic decisions that drove the RAF's area bombing campaign against Nazi Germany are interwoven deftly with the narrative of the crew's operational careers. ****************************** Reviews: 'A sensitive account of the bomber's life... Price has given the bomber offensive a human face. This book [...] has a heart and soul' The Times. 'A fascinating and fast-paced account of the exploits of an Avro Lancaster bomber crew from 97 Squadron RAF' The Herald. 'A remarkable insight into the bravery, determination and skill of British Bomber Command crews during WWII' Waterstones.

Author : Mario Martinez
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady's Men written by Mario Martinez and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In April 1943, an American Liberator bomber, based in Libya and christened by her crew 'Lady Be Good', vanished mysteriously. The crew were simply reported as 'Missing, presumed dead.' Then, fifteen years later, BP oilmen on an aerial reconnaissance over south-central Libya spotted the remains of the bomber four hundred and forty miles from its original destination. Examining in detail all the evidence, Mario Martinez set out to discover what had really happened to the ill-fated craft and her crew ..."--Cover

Author : Mark Vance
Publisher : Mark Alan Vance
ISBN 13 : 0615473768
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Forgotten written by Mark Vance and published by Mark Alan Vance. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flight of the Forgotten is the true story of one of the most closely-guarded American military secrets of all time. It is intriguing, controversial and thought-provoking. The story traverses 50 years, two generations and the realities of our physical world. The triggering event is the tragic loss of an American Eighth Air Force bomber crew in 1945 under mysterious circumstances while enroute home after the end of World War II. The loss represents a 50-year-old aviation mystery, officially "forgotten" by the United States Government. Details described and amplified within the story remain permanently "buried" inside a top-secret O.S.S. file to this day. This book is a public counter to official efforts by the United States Government to have the events permanently erased from the public record. The author's extensive research indicates that those events involve murder, conspiracy and sabotage by the O.S.S., the forerunner to the modern CIA.

Author : S. L. Berry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Those who Wait written by S. L. Berry and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Price
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180024231X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosquito Men written by David Price and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1940, a remarkable prototype aircraft made its maiden flight from an airstrip north of London. Novel in construction and exceptionally fast, the new plane was soon outpacing the Spitfire, and went on to contribute to the RAF's offensive against Nazi Germany as bomber, pathfinder and night fighter. The men who flew it nicknamed this most flexible of aircraft 'the wooden wonder' for its composite wooden frame and superb performance. Its more familiar name was the de Havilland Mosquito, and it used lightning speed and agility to inflict mayhem on the German war machine. From the summer of 1943, as Bomber Command intensified its saturation bombing of German cities, Mosquitos were used by the Pathfinder Force, which marked targets for night-time bombing, to devastating effect. Mosquito Men traces the contrasting careers of the young men of 627 Squadron, including that of Ken Oatley – last living member of an illustrious group – who flew twenty-two operations in Mosquitos as a navigator. David Price's atmospheric narrative interweaves the human stories of the crews of 627 Squadron with events in the wider war as the Allies closed in on Germany from the summer of 1944. Mosquito Men is rich in evocative and technically authoritative accounts of individual missions flown by an aircraft that ranks alongside the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Lancaster as one of the RAF's greatest ever flying machines – and perhaps the most versatile warplane ever built. For those fans of the Mosquito aircraft recently described by Rowland White, Mosquito Men will add the human element to this iconic plane.

Author : William C. Anderson
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553262230
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bomber Crew 369 written by William C. Anderson and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Wilber
Publisher : Three Hills
ISBN 13 : 9781501769641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Point written by Tom Wilber and published by Three Hills. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On February 18, 1944, a B-24 Liberator bomber vanished while on a training mission over upstate New York. The pilot and seven crew were presumed dead after the initial search spanning Lake Ontario, the Tug Hill Plateau, and the Adirondacks, yet their final hours and ultimate resting place remain a mystery to this day"--