Raf Bomber Command Losses in the Second World War: 1944 - Couverture souple

Chorley, W. R

 
9780904597912: Raf Bomber Command Losses in the Second World War: 1944
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0904597911 ISBN 13 : 9780904597912
Editeur : Midland Publishing, 1997

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During the Second World War, RAF Bomber Comand flew more than a third of a million sorties during the course of which 55,500 airmen were killed and 18,000 wounded and/or became prisoners of war. Over one third of all these casualties occurred in 1944 - a year that opened with the concluding phase of the Battle of Berlin and the costly Nürnberg raid. 1944 also saw a change in policy and a move away from area bombing to the more tactical targets such as rail centres, as a prelude to and a follow-up from the invasion of the European mainland by the Allied forces. Bomber Command also contributed to the attacks on the V1 launching sites. This volume details 3,527 individual aircraft losses in the European Theatre of Operations. The entries appear in date order, together with the unit, aircraft type, serial, crew list, and the circumstances in which the loss occurred. These are complemented by extensive Appendices. This sobering record is a testimony to the unselfish sacrifice made by thousands of young men, who came from all corners of the British Empire and from the occupied countries, to help in the fight to free Europe from the tyrannical grip of Hitler's Third Reich.

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Éditeur
Midland Publishing
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0904597911
ISBN 13 
9780904597912
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
545
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Personne responsable
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