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Valiant Boys - True Tales from the Operators of the UK's First Four-Jet Bomber (Paperback)
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Valiant Boys - True Tales from the Operators of the UK's First Four-Jet Bomber (Paperback)
Series: The Jet Age Series
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Following on from the success of Victor Boys and Vulcan Boys, Tony
Blackman, in collaboration with Anthony Wright, brings you Valiant
Boys to complete the V Force set. This is a fascinating collection
of personal accounts of operating Britains first V bomber by
aircrew and ground crew. The book tells the story from the
aircrafts birth taking off from Vickers tiny airfield at Brooklands
to its premature death from fatigue. There are tales of testing
atom bombs in the Australian desert, dropping hydrogen bombs in the
middle of the Pacific and, as a complete contrast, attacking
airfields with conventional bombs in Egypt during the very brief
and abortive Suez campaign. We are reminded of how the Valiant
provided the UKs first nuclear deterrent by always having some
armed aircraft on stand-by twenty-four hours a day, supported by
their air and ground crews, ready to be flown at a moments notice
on a one-way trip to launch an atomic war. Some Valiants were given
a photographic role providing accurate images from high altitude
and were used not only to gather military intelligence but also to
survey the UK and countries overseas. Others were developed into
flight refuelling tankers breaking point to point records before
enabling Britains fighter aircraft to be refuelled and fly anywhere
in the world. This book completes Tony Blackmans trilogy of the
three V bombers. As Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael
Beetham makes it clear in his foreword: It is good to have a book
written by aircrew and ground crew telling their stories and how
they operated the aircraft so that all these things are recorded
and not forgotten. Not as well known as the Vulcan and Victor, the
Valiant is often overlooked; this book will go a long way to
redress the balance.
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