Название: Above the Battle: An Air Observation Post Pilot at War
Автор: Ronald Lyell Munro
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
In April 1943, a young officer arrived at Penshurst to join ‘C’ Flight, 653 Squadron. He was no ordinary pilot and this was no ordinary RAF outfit. Lyell Munro was a soldier and 653 was an Air Observation Post Squadron whose pilots were Royal Artillery and whose ground crew were RAF.
AOP pilots were expert gunners, skilled flyers and incurable rule breakers. Flying from airstrips just behind the front lines, without armament and often with no parachute, they controlled the fire of hundreds of guns and their enemies learnt to dread the sight of the little green Austers in the skies above the battlefield.