TO SHATTER THE SKY BOMBER AIRFIELD AT WAR
Written by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
Published by Patrick Stephens
in 1984
ISBN: 0850596785
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TO SHATTER THE SKY BOMBER AIRFIELD AT WAR
Written by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny.
Stock no. 2110815
1st.
1984.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A general description of a typical wartime bomber airfield, going on to relate personal stories of several crews and their missions. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0850596785. Top edge of front cover is creased. Some page browning. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some edge-creasing and a few small nicks and chips.
TO SHATTER THE SKY BOMBER AIRFIELD AT WAR
Written by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny.
Stock no. 1807284
1st.
1984.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A general description of a typical wartime bomber airfield, going on to relate personal stories of several crews and their missions. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0850596785. Top & tail of spine bumped. Pencil erasure marks to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is lightly edge-worn.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword by Wing Commander K.H. Wallis
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Glossary
- PART ONE
- 1 Development of the bomber airfield
- 2 The bombs
- 3 Bomber Command war theme
- PART TWO
- 4 Ops in the Wimpy
- 5 Bale out
- 6 That special breed of men
- 7 Learning the trade
- 8 Devotion to duty
- 9 Mission to Geissen
- 10 Flying as a "spare"
- 11 Four years in service
- 12 The routine flight
- 13 The last letter
- 14 A Rhodesian's adventure over Stettin
- 15 Unkindly light
- 16 Nuremberg Raid, March 30/31 1944
- 17 Failed to return
- 18 The shuttle raids, 1943
- 19 Target after D-Day
- 20 Our last trip
- 21 Tale of a tail gunner
- 22 A Pole in bomber Command: Sergeant Drozdz
- 23 Special duty operator's diary
- 24 An erk in Bomber Command
- 25 Destination Hannover
- 26 Reflections
- PART THREE
- 27 Airmen of RAF Bomber Squadrons awarded the VC