Bomber Command: Reflections Of War

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This the fourth volume of a five part work that provides a comprehensive insight into all aspects of RAF Bomber Command in World War Two begins in the spring of 1944 with a completely new insight on the catastrophic raid on Nuremburg on the night of 30/31 March & follows with the disastrous attack on Mailly-le-Camp in May. Gradually the Allied Bomber Offensive began to bear fruit & in June 1944 the invasion of Normandy took place under an umbrella of almost total Allied air superiority. RAF Bomber Command was to play a huge part in what proved to be the final steps to ultimate victory returning to the mass raids on German cities by night & even mounting raids on the Reich by day. The author's well-tried formula of using background information interspersed with the crews' personal narrative takes you raid by raid through each tour of ops while carrying full bomb loads in sub-zero temperatures blighted by atrocious weather conditions & dogged by fear of fire death or serious injury or having to endure months if not years of miserable existence & near starvation behind the wire in notorious Po W camps. The path to peace was paved with the unmitigated slow ebbing of courage with an ever-present possibility of death unannounced from a prowling night fighter nondescript & unseen as night after incessant night shattered & ailing bombers could run out of luck to crash in some foreign field while other crews almost 'home'
- almost empty
- ran out of fuel & died horrible tortuous deaths in twisted & tangled wreckage. Not for them the glory that was accorded The ' Few' but as Winston Churchill said: ' Fighters are our salvation but the bombers alone provide the means of victory'.