by RobertJackson (Author)
On 4 September 1939, Bristol Blenheims of Nos. 107 and 110 Squadrons, RAF Bomber Command, swept low over the rain-shrouded North Sea to attack the German battle fleet off Wilhelmshaven. For Bomber Command, the raid marked the beginning of nearly five years of bloody conflict - five years that saw the Command's emergence from a nucleus of poorly-equipped, understrength squadrons into the most massive and formidable striking force in history. This is the story of three of those years, from the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939 to the end of 1942.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 08 Nov 2001
ISBN 10: 0304359769
ISBN 13: 9780304359769
Book Overview: Unique - much has been written about Bomber Command in the second half of the war, but very little about the early years when the force was badly underequipped against a superior enemy Features the individual stories of courage and endurance as told by those who survived.