Wives, mothers & teenage girls clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make the explosives, bullets, shells, bombs & war machines that would ensure victory.

It was a dangerous, dirty & exhausting job with many going home with acid burns, yellow skin or damaged hair.

This hidden army of nearly two million women toiled on regardless through the hardest years of the war, despite the bombing, rationing & heartbreak of loss or separation from their other halves.

Delve into the vivid wartime memories of the secret army of female workers as we republish to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of VE Day in May 1945!

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781789462050
• Author: Jacky Hyams
• Publisher: John Blake
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 232
• Dimensions: 20 x 12.7 x 1.5cm















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Lancaster pilot Victor Wood's aircraft arrived too early over Gelsenkirchen when the target was shrouded in darkness & the Main Force miles behind. His bomber was suddenly struck with terrifying force by flak & turned upside-down. Could Vic get his crew back to base safely? This book contains 19 similar stories. ...

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. ...

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The seminal account of the heroism, daring & ingenuity of the men of Allied Bomber Comm&, who took the war to the enemy's doorstep. The Second World War saw aerial bombing
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