Lancaster Squadrons 1944 45

Author : Jon Lake
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841764337
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lancaster Squadrons 1944–45 written by Jon Lake and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2002-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The RAF's most successful heavy bomber of World War II (1939-1945), the Avro Lancaster formed the backbone of Bomber Command during the large-scale night bombing campaign against occupied Europe. Produced in massive numbers (over 7300 up to VE-Day), the first examples entered squadron service on Christmas Eve 1941, and tasted combat the following March. The second of two volumes on the British bomber icon of World War II, this book details Bomber Command's massive nocturnal bombing campaign, its support for the D-Day landings, Tallboy raids against the U-boat pens in France and the battleship Tirpitz in Norway, and the final daylight missions of 1945.

Author : Jon Lake
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841763132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lancaster Squadrons 1942–43 written by Jon Lake and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2002-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey's study of the RAF's most successful heavy bomber of World War II (1939-1945). The Avro Lancaster formed the backbone of Bomber Command during the large-scale night bombing campaign against occupied Europe. In this, the first of two volumes on the British bomber icon of World War 2, noted English aviation historian Jon Lake recounts the early daylight raids, the first 'thousand bomber' raids on Germany and the epic 'Dambusters' mission of 16/17 May 1943 by No 617 Sqn, as well as myriad other sorties to numerous German targets in 1942-43. This volume contains more than 100 photographs, 30 all-new colour profiles by leading aviation artist Chris Davey and specially commissioned scale drawings of the Lancaster B I/II by Mark Styling.

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Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 9J written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon Lake
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781855328921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Halifax Squadrons of World War 2 written by Jon Lake and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of Britain's four-engined bombers to enter frontline service during World War II (1939-1945), Handley Page's Halifax has forever lived in the shadow of Avro's superb Lancaster. However, it was a Halifax which became the first RAF 'heavy' to drop bombs on Germany when No 35 Sqn raided Hamburg on the night of 12/13 March 1941. Between 1941-45, the Halifax completed some 75,532 sorties [compared with the Lancaster's 156,000] with Bomber Command alone, not to mention its sterling work as both a glider tug and paratroop carrier with the Airborne Forces, maritime patrol mount with Coastal Command and covert intruder with the SOE.

Author : Philip Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Targets Past written by Philip Gray and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating insights and remembrances of a Lancaster bomber pilot taking part in the first daring night raids over Germany in the latter days of World War II.

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915850
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Postlethwaite
Publisher : Red Kite
ISBN 13 : 9781906592059
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lancaster Squadrons in Focus written by Mark Postlethwaite and published by Red Kite. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752476971
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lancaster: Reaping the Whirlwind written by Martin W. Bowman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the Lancaster's history from 1942–45, this study brings everything together to tell a concise history of the world's most famous aircraft of all time and undoubtedly the finest bomber of the Second World War. A superlative and unique colour section of over fifty contemporary photographs of the Lancaster is featured, while the text is complemented by over 150 rare and seldom seen black and white images. Well researched and expertly written, this account is a must read to those interested in the Lancaster and aviation history in general. The book also includes many unique and incredible eyewitness accounts of the raids by Lancaster crews, making Lancaster: Reaping the Whirlwind both a gripping and fascinating read.

Author : Gordon Thorburn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473897688
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Luck of a Lancaster written by Gordon Thorburn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 11 June 1943 (the date of Lancaster Mark III EE136 WS/R's first op) to her last with 9 Squadron (on 19 October 1944), eighty-six Lancasters were assigned to Number 9. Of these, fifty were lost to enemy action, another five crashed at home, three crashed in Russia on the first Tirpitz raid and four were transferred to other squadrons only to be lost by them, leaving just twenty-four still flying.As more came in, three of those twenty-four were transferred to a new squadron, the reforming No 189. These were EE136 (93 operations), PB146 (36 ops), and LM745 (four ops). All three saw the war out, unlike so many others. During 189 Squadron's operational period featuring EE136 (1 November 1944 to 3 February 1945) thirty-four Lancasters came on the strength of which nine were lost in that time. Over the operational lifetime of Lancaster EE136, forty-two different skippers took her on her grand total of 109 trips. Altogether, 315 men flew on ops in this machine, many of them more than once - the most 'capped' captain, F/O Roy Lake, twenty-two times - and of those men, 101 were killed in other aircraft.Those are the statistics. But this is the story of the men behind the numbers.

Author : Harry Yates
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
ISBN 13 : 9781840372915
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luck and a Lancaster written by Harry Yates and published by Crowood Press UK. This book was released on 2005-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes you, raid by raid, through the author's tour of operational duty over the last five months of 1944. It is a bomber pilot's story, but it is also about the grinding operational pressure, the brotherhood of the crew and fears of injury and death. It is about a squadron of Bomber Command that bore a barely-equaled burden in operational effort and losses. It is about young airmen the author knew, who lived and too often died amid the turmoil in enemy skies.