Patrick Bishop looks at the lives & the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan Mc Gregor. They came from every corner of Britain & its Empire. They were the best of their generation…heading for one of the worst tasks of World War 2. Like RAF pilots, the thousands of brave young men who joined Bomber Command took to the air to help Britain triumph in World War Two. But in the glow of victory, the fighter pilots were lauded for their efforts while the Bomber Boys faded in national memory. Crucial in the heat of combat, they were politically awkward afterwards. Yet with an average life expectancy shorter than that of soldiers on the Western front in WWI, these men faced death, injury & capture time & again to send bombs through the shrieking flak onto enemy territory. ‘ Bomber Boys’ is a tribute to their strength, courage... ...

For Bomber Comm&, the term ' Phoney War' never really meant much. Five Blenheims of 107 Squadron were among the blood & bullets the day after war was declared & only one came back. On 14 December 1939, in a disastrous raid on shipping, 99 Squadron lost six Wellingtons with only three survivors out of thirty-six crew. Even worse, in the biggest air battle so far, 18 December, Wilhelmshaven, five Wellingtons of 9 Squadron went down, four of 37 Squadron & two of 149 Squadron. Bomber Command lost sixty-eight aircraft & crews in action in the four war months of 1939, & a further seventy-eight in accidents. In the months up to the French surrender, losses rose spectacularly as the Germans triumphed wherever they went. In a few hours on 14 May, resisting the Blitzkrieg, forty-seven Fairey Battles & Bristol Blenheims were shot from the sky. Through the Scandinavian defence, in France & Belgium, at Dunkirk &, at last, over Germany, for Bomber Command there was no Phoney War. It was real war from the start. ...

One night in June 1943 James Swift, along with the Lancaster bomber he piloted, vanished. This title seeks to discover what happened, & tries to understand the men who took part in these dangerous raids, as well as their devastating impact on the civilians below. ...

The county of Lincolnshire will forever be known as ' Bomber County' because of the many RAF Bomber Command bases dotted about its flat landscape. It is undoubtedly one of England's premier counties when it comes to military aviation. This rich history dates back to the days of the Royal Naval Air Service & Royal Flying Corps when rudimentary airfields were constructed during the First World War, through the RAF's night bombing offensive of the Second World War & on to the nuclear V-Force of the Cold War era. The 'bomber' tag relates only part of the county's aviation history. During the RAF's long association with Lincolnshire, there has also been a strong training element, which continues to this day; a front-line contribution to air defence of the UK; & a reputation as 'NATO Central' thanks to the comings & goings of various Europe-based squadrons at RAF Waddington during air combat training. For this new edition, most of the photographs are new. Maps of the bases' locations are included, as is a comprehensive Station-by-Station appendix featuring all the units based at over 150 airfields during nearly 90 years of aviation history. ...

Geoffrey King & the crew of C Charlie are unique in having flown together for fifty missions & living to tell the tale. Bomber Flight Berlin is the story of a group of ordinary men from different walks of life, thrown together by the forces of war. It is the story of those missions above Berlin, as they flew into what seemed like certain death, while aircraft all around them were blasted out of the sky. It is also a testament to a remarkable friendship. ...

Two sisters. Only one can follow their heart. Swansea, 1941. When her home is bombed, Meryl Jones is evacuated to Carmarthen. 

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The role of the bomber has proved to be on of the most controversial aspects of twentieth-century warfare. " Bombers" tells the story of the bomber with a blend of narrative & personal accounts, recording the history of the principle bombing raids & the skill & courage of those who flew them. ...

' Women of Britain, your country needs you!' Bombers & Mash tells the story of the Second World War on the domestic front. It takes us from the kitchen to the nursery showing how women managed without almost everything from potato peelers, cosmetics & prams to food, fuel, transport
- & men. These women coped with rationing, evacuation, separation from families, long hours of work in factories, hospitals & on the l&. Through it all they kept the nation fed on ingeniously nutritious & economical meals
- hundreds of the best, & some of the worst, are included here. In print for over thirty years, Bombers & Mash is moving, fascinating & full of posters & images from the Second World War. It is both an illustrated social history & a cookery book offering a remarkable picture of the deprivation & drama of the women's war. The size of this book is 24.4cm in height & 18.2cm wide with 206 pages

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Discover the aircraft of the RAF Bomber Command with this exciting special 3 DVD collection. On disc one, learn about the story of the Lancaster & how it became the most successful of all World War II 'heavies' in carrying more than its own weight in bomb load. On disc two, the Vickers Wellington takes centre stage as its versatility allowed it to be used in almost every theatre of war & lasted throughout the war. Finally, on disc three, this is the story of the air war over Germany from the British viewpoint, featuring rare archive material from both British & German sources, new footage of surviving RAF bombers, illustrative maps & graphics, & military analysis by Dr. Robert Clifton of Warwick University. ...

The 67 aircraft in this volume reflect the development of such aircraft throughout the first truly formative, period in military aviation history. The period 1914-19 is selected so as to include certain important types designed during the war, but which arrived too late for combat service. ...