Dam Busters: Failed to Return - Couverture rigide

Darlow, Steve; Feast, Sean; Owen, Robert; Thorning, Arthur G

9780957116344: Dam Busters: Failed to Return

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ISBN 10 : 0957116349 ISBN 13 : 9780957116344

Editeur : Fighting High Ltd, 2013

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Dam Busters Failed to Return On 16/17 May 1943 a select group of Bomber Command airmen carried out one of the most audacious and daring low level attacks of WW2 - the Dam Busters raid. Eight Lancasters failed to return, 53 men were killed and 3 captured. Bomber Command historians recount the lives of some of the Dam Busters who were lost that fateful night - 70 years ago. Full description

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On the night of 16/17 May 1943 a select group of young RAF Bomber Command airmen carried out one of the most audacious and daring low level raids of the Second World War. Nineteen aircrews of No.617 Squadron, flying modified Avro Lancasters, each armed with a 'bouncing bomb', were detailed to attack specific dams, viewed as essential to Germany's war effort. Two were indeed breached in an extraordinary display of skill and courage, but at a cost of eight Lancasters lost. Of the 56 airmen flying these aircraft, 53 were killed and 3 were captured. In Dam Busters: Failed to Return Fighting High Publishing brings together notable Bomber Command historians to recount the lives of some of the Dam Busters who were lost that fateful night. Drawing upon family archives, official documents, wartime memoirs and letters, flying logbooks, and relative and witness recollections, and illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs and documents, the authors piece together the extraordinary, gripping, yet ultimately tragic stories of these select young men.

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