Last of the Lancasters
By: Martin W. Bowman
Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Barnsley, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781473843455; 9781473843073; 9781783831746
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Lancaster (Bomber); World War, 1939-1945; British Aerial operations; British Personal narratives; Aerial Military operations; British
Description: The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back. The planes carried from this field 117,000 pounds of high explosives and the crews flew all night to drop the load as ordered. Now the trains would not run between France and Italy for a while, not on those bombed tracks anyhow. Here are the men who did it, with mussed hair and weary faces, dirty sweaters under their flying suits, sleep-bright eyes, making humble comradely little jokes and eating their saved-up chocolate bars' - Martha Gellhorn This riveting and h.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue S.D. Clewer; Chapter 1: The First 'Daylights'; Chapter 2: Lady Luck Pilot Officer 'Chad' Chadwick; Chapter 3: Bomber Boys Martha Gellhorn; Chapter 4: The Seven Survivors Flight Lieutenant Jack Gowan DFC; Chapter 5: Night Of No Return D.I. Jones DFC; Chapter 6: Night Trip To Munich D.W. Pye; Chapter 7: No Particular Courage Harry Church; Chapter 8: Abracadabra, Jump! Jump! Geoff Taylor; Chapter 9: Fire Over Frankfurt; Chapter 10: 'This Is London'; Chapter 11: Press on Regardless Keith Parry.; title: Chapter 12: 'V for Victor' Sergeant Ben FrazierChapter 13: Yanks and Lancs; Chapter 14: The Nuremberg Raid; Chapter 15: Mailly-le-Camp; Memories of a Bomber Raid; Chapter 16: Gladiators of the Air; Chapter 17: Gelsenkirchen Campbell Muirhead; Chapter 18: Stand Down Campbell Muirhead; Chapter 19: 'Aircraft of Bomber Command last night raided Dresden'; Chapter 20: Easy Does It Russell Steer DFC; Chapter 21: The Woodbridge Intruder J.J. Jack Lee; Chapter 22: Manna; Chapter 23: Exodus; Chapter 24: Lincoln Legacy; Index.