Flights Into History: Final Missions Retold by Research and Archaeology - Couverture rigide

McLachlan, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0750942991 ISBN 13 : 9780750942997

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

In this compelling sequel to Final Flights, aviation archaeologist Ian McLachlan has reconstructed the dramatic last flights of Second World War airmen, including the first Fortress to fall in combat from the USAAF's 447th Bomber Group; the final flight of an intruder Mosquito pursuing a German night fighter; the courage of a Lancaster pilot responsible for six lives aboard a burning aircraft; the story of a Spitfire's last flight and its heroic Belgian pilot. Exciting stories are also recounted of those whose misdirected courage saw them serve under the swastika. In reconstructing long-forgotten wartime events, often from buried wreckage, eyewitness accounts and contemporary documentation, aviation archaeologists can bring recognition to the individual flyers involved and shed new light on the air war over Britain and Europe during the Second World War. Even the discovery of small fragments can be significant. They provide evidence or prompt new research, revealing stories that offer a uniquely human dimension and reveal the hopes, fears, aspirations and pleasures of the aircrew involved. Ian McLachlan and other aviation archaeologists have now done them justice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian McLachlan is an authority on the history of the wartime USAAF and is the author of six titles, including Eighth Air Force Bomber Stories: A New Selection (2004 and USAAF Fighter Stories: A New Selection (2005). He lives in Suffolk.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0750942991
• ISBN 13: 9780750942997
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible