Halifax down!
Subtitle: on the run from the Gestapo, 1944
By: Tom Wingham.
Publisher: Grub Street; Grub Street Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781906502393
Subjects: Wingham, Tom, -- 1923-; Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force -- Biography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium; World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British; Belgium -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945; Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
Genres: Personal narratives, British
Description: "On the night of 22/23rd April 1944 Tom Wingham was the bomb aimer in the crew of a 76 Squadron Halifax shot down while on the way to bomb D?sseldorf. Coming to in a tangle of parachute and harness straps he realised the precariousness of his situation and so, dazed and aching with a painful concussion, he quickly set off on his long and difficult journey home through occupied territory ... In the 1980s Tom assisted a Dutch air historian with some research and this prompted him to look into the details of his own crash. What he uncovered not only shed more light on his own story but also those of his fellow crew members. He plotted approximately where each person landed that fateful night and slowly their incredible stories emerged"--Jacket.