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Operation Diver - Guns, V1 Flying Bombs and Landscapes of Defence, 1944-45 (Hardcover)
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Operation Diver - Guns, V1 Flying Bombs and Landscapes of Defence, 1944-45 (Hardcover)
Series: Monuments of War
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Operation Diver is the story of a battle: its action, people,
landscapes, and remains. The battle was Anti-Aircraft Command's
attempt to defeat the V1 flying-bomb, the first of Nazi Germany's
`retribution' weapons, whose attacks dominated the home front in
the final year of the Second World War. Beginning in the week of
D-Day, the flying bomb battle lasted for nine months. In that time
the men and women of AA Command became a massed, mobile army,
shifting a vast carpet of guns to meet the V1's changing lines of
attack. Beginning in Kent and Sussex, their journey took in the
Thames Estuary, East Anglia and eventually the Yorkshire coast.
Along with the RAF's fighter aircraft and the larger air defence
system, their mission was to prevent a single flying bomb from
reaching London, or any other British city. The battle was won; but
not before many technical and human obstacles were overcome.
Published to mark the 75th anniversary of the flying bomb campaign,
Operation Diver is also an essay in landscape history, and shows
for the first time in detail how hundreds of guns and thousands of
gunners were deployed across the fields and farms of Britain, from
the south-east to Flamborough Head. Published with a full gazetteer
of gunsite positions, it also documents Historic England's work in
assessing the survival of Operation Diver's fragmentary remains.
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