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Blenheims Over Greece and Crete 1940-1941 (Paperback)
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Blenheims Over Greece and Crete 1940-1941 (Paperback)
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List price R591
Loot Price R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
You Save R107 (18%)
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The Bristol Blenheim entered Bomber Command service in 1937 and
became one of the Command's most important aircraft. On its
inception, the Blenheim was fast and sleek, and at the outbreak of
war, achieved a number of early firsts. It was the first British
aircraft to enter German airspace and attacked warships near
Wilhelmshaven. The war, however, showed the Blenheim was outdated
and extremely vulnerable to flak and fast Luftwaffe fighters such
as the Bf 109 and Bf 110. It suffered horrific losses during the
Battle of France: 144 Squadron lost almost its entire bombers in
one mission. The fighting in France revealed the Blenheim Mk IV to
be under armoured, under armed and slow. Before being replaced by
the Wooden Wonder, the mighty Mosquito, the Blenheim soldiered on
with almost suicidal consequences for its crews. Blenheims Over
Greece and Crete: RAF and Greek Blenheims in Action 1940-1941
covers the operations, often tragic, of the Blenheims during the
fighting over Greece and Albania. By the end of the fighting and
withdrawal to Crete, all three squadrons had effectively been wiped
out, with great sacrifice by the crews involved. One of the airmen
involved was No. 30 Squadron's Sgt Lofty Lord whose grandson Simon
has amassed much information and photographs, many previously
unpublished, from survivors and/or their families. The same three
squadrons, with many new crews to replace those lost in Greece,
later fought together in Sumatra and Java (the Dutch East Indies)
in an endeavour to repel the Japanese invasion. Written by one of
the world's leading authorities on Second World War military
aviation, this is a gripping account of the heroics of the small
band of British and Greek airmen who flew the Blenheims against
ever-increasing odds, particularly once the Luftwaffe were
determined to decimate them.
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