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Arctic Airmen - The RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia, 1942 (Paperback)
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Arctic Airmen - The RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia, 1942 (Paperback)
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In 1942 a Catalina crew of 210 Squadron, based at Sullom Voe in the
Shetlands, was selected to carry out a series of highly secret
operations, including a flight to the North Pole. The sorties were
associated with a Norwegian expedition from Britain to Spitsbergen,
to deny the use of the territory to the enemy. The flights made by
the crew were frequently over twenty-four hours in length and
reached the limits of human endurance, in conditions of extreme
cold. Later, the squadron was detached to North Russia, to provide
cover for the convoys taking vital supplies to the Allies on the
Eastern Front. The navigator of the crew, Ernest Schofield,
retained logs of most of these sorties. Together with other
survivors of the crew, accounts from German sources and research
carried out by Roy Conyers Nesbit, he recreated these little-known
events, in detailed and accurate narrative that ends in tragedy.
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