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"Expertly researched . . . 20 different narratives in which these heroes venture out night after night on sorties throughout World War II Europe." -Plane and Pilot
Three weeks after Stirling air gunner Doug Fry was reported missing over Germany his mother was still clinging to the vain hope that he was alive.
Then a neighbor said she had seen him in the cinema just down the road. The airman and his crew had been filmed for a Bomber Command...
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Twenty true stories of bravery, survival, and good and bad luck involving Bomber Command during World War II from the author of Flying into Hell.
In their own words, the heroes of Bomber Command tell their harrowing stories . . .
"It is believed that when Dacey realized the aircraft was on fire he grabbed an extinguisher, hurried aft and tried, in vain, to put out the flames. Somehow he became trapped behind the spreading inferno and was unable...
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Vivid World War II stories of the brave men of Bomber Command and their adventures from the bestselling author of To Hell and Back and Hell on Earth.
Mel Rolfe brings the reader real-life stories of bomber command at war with his new book Flying into Hell. A journalist by profession, Rolfe has conducted his interviews and prepared the stories in such a way as to take the reader into the events as they happened. To read these accounts is to step...
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The author of Flying into Hell climbs into the cockpit with the pilots of Bomber Command for classic stories of gallantry in World War II.
This new edition of Mel Rolfe's successful book contains twenty dramatic but true stories of Bomber Command adventures.
Some of them defy belief-like the RAF bomb aimer who was blown out of his Liberator over Warsaw at 400ft without a parachute and made a poignant return in 1989 to witness the unveiling...
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