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A Thunder Bird in Bomber Command - The Wartime Letters and Story of Lionel Andreson, the Man Who Inspired the Thunderbirds Legend (Hardcover)
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A Thunder Bird in Bomber Command - The Wartime Letters and Story of Lionel Andreson, the Man Who Inspired the Thunderbirds Legend (Hardcover)
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Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying
Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of
operations. He had survived his first tour stooging up and down the
French coast in an outdated Boulton Paul Defiant to confound the
German night fighter defences and allow the Royal Air Force bombers
a free run to the target. Lionel's journey to war had been one of
enormous excitement, most of which had been spent training in the
sunshine and mountains of Arizona, flying during the day and
partying hard at the weekends. A prolific letter writer, Lionel
continually regaled his parents with tales of cowboys and indians,
rattlesnakes and spiders, ground loops and near misses. He also
talked of his Hollywood connections, his new'pals' Preston Foster
and Gene Tierney, and a movie in which he had 'starred' as an
'extra'. In A Thunder Bird in Bomber Command, acclaimed military
aviation historian Sean Feast pieces together Lionel's story
revealing a young man dearly loved by his mother and father. He was
similarly worshipped by his younger brother, Gerald, who would go
on to become a world renowned television producer, director, and
writer. It was Lionel's connection with a little-known film that
was to inspire Gerry Anderson to create a global phenomena - the
legend of Thunderbirds.
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