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Bomber Command Airfields of Lincolnshire
Peter Jacobs
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Description for Bomber Command Airfields of Lincolnshire
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From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of Europe. Many of its squadrons were based in Lincolnshire, where the flat terrain and open fields made the county ideal for the development of new airfields. All of Bomber Command's major efforts involved the Lincolnshire-based squadrons. The Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg and Berlin, during the hardest years of 1943/44, were just some of those when night after night hundreds of bombers took off from the county, many never to return. It was ... Read more
From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of Europe. Many of its squadrons were based in Lincolnshire, where the flat terrain and open fields made the county ideal for the development of new airfields. All of Bomber Command's major efforts involved the Lincolnshire-based squadrons. The Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg and Berlin, during the hardest years of 1943/44, were just some of those when night after night hundreds of bombers took off from the county, many never to return. It was ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
436g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783463343
SKU
V9781783463343
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-4
About Peter Jacobs
Peter Jacobs served nearly 37 years in the RAF (1977-2013) as an air defence navigator, initially on the F4 Phantom and later on the Tornado F3\. He has written twenty books including Daring Raids of World War Two: Heroic Land, Sea and Air Attacks (2015); Bomber Command: Airfields of Lincolnshire (2016) and The RAF in 100 Objects (2017).
Reviews for Bomber Command Airfields of Lincolnshire
This is just the kind of book I like these days. Not just interesting to read, but a really useful guide if you want to have it with you as you travel around and see some historical sites of WW2 in Britain. During the war one campaign that was undertaken from Britain throughout the war was that of the bombers ... Read more