Название: Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WW II
Автор: Martin Bowman
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1783831936
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB/AZW3/PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 22,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
This book contains fourteen stirring accounts pieced together from interviews of what life flying as air-crew in World War Two bombing operations was really like. The storytellers are an eclectic mix of pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators and gunners who flew on operations in heavy bombers. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target, attacks by Luftwaffe night-fighters, often catastrophic damage to aircraft and the ensuing struggle to keep the machine airborne on the return trip to base. It tells of the comradeship between the crew and often the humour between them, often borne of fear.