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Battle Orders - A Docu-Drama of a Young Lancaster Crew's Experiences in 1945 (Paperback)
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Battle Orders - A Docu-Drama of a Young Lancaster Crew's Experiences in 1945 (Paperback)
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A young Lancaster crew's battles over the skies of Germany in a
series of highly-dangerous operations. Every event described in
this fictional account actually occurred, often many times.
Ploughing through skies pockmarked with the smoke of exploding
shells from anti-aircraft guns, and coned by dozens of
searchlights, they also faced the bullets and canon shells of night
fighters. A different kind of danger, but sometimes no less deadly,
often took place in appalling weather conditions. Caught, for
instance, in a massive cumulonimbus cloud their aircraft might be
battered by hailstones while being tossed up and down hundreds of
feet in vicious convection currents, with ice forming up to six
inches thick on the wings, and threatening its ability to remain
airborne. Returning aircraft might be forced to 'ditch' over the
North Sea and spend hours in a rubber dinghy in rough seas, waiting
to be rescued. For the Air/Sea Rescue aircraft whose pilots flew
out to find them, the task was often immensely difficult as they
would often be trying to spot little more than a tiny object in a
vast sea, constantly drifting and sometimes almost invisible in
mist or fog. As the Second World War draws to a close, the book
describes not only the rationale of each operation, but also the
changing military situation, and the Home Front of rationing,
bombing (including 'doodlebugs' and V2 rockets), the blackout, and
the tremendous efforts of both men and women civilians making their
crucially important contributions to winning the War.
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