Sledgehammers for Tintacks: Bomber Command Combats the V-1 Menace, 1943 - 1944
In the summer of 1944, in the skies over Southern England, a new era in international warfare began. A German reprisal weapon, called the V1 or 'flying bomb', launched from occupied France, would bring indiscriminate terror and panic to the civilian population of London and the home counties. This book gives an account of how the massive Allied strategic bombing force was used to counter the flying bomb threat and how the airmen from the Commander-in-Chief right down to the aircrews and ground-crews acted upon the decisions made. Decisions which would lead to many Allied airmen suffering serious injury, many losing their lives or being captur…
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- ISBN: 978-1-902304-96-0
- EAN: 9781902304960
- Produktnummer: 9753291
- Verlag: Grub Street
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H24.5 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.3 cm 535 g
- Gewicht: 535
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