"Ops": victory at all costs : on operations over Hitler's Reich with the crews of Bomber Command : their war - their words
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Preface viii
Foreword by John Nichol ix
Authors Introduction x
Exposition xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
Glossary xviii
Maps: The Operational Squadrons of Bomber Command - 30 March 1944 xxiii
‘Night of the Strong Winds : 24/25 March 1944 xxiv
FART ONE FIRST STEPS
Chapter One ·... OTHERWISE 1 MAY END UP IN THE ARMY’ First Steps 3
Chapter Two ‘THAT’S THE LAST TIME YOU WILL EVER BEATTHE CONTROLS!’ Training 1 1
ChapterThree ‘IT SEEMED TO TAKE QUITE A LOT OF PUNISHMENT WITHOUT FALLING OUT OF THE SKY’ The Aircraft 23
Chapter Four ‘A GRAND MOB OF FELLOWS’ The Crew 40
Chapter Five ‘A JUGGLE WITH JESUS’ OTU: Part One 58
FART TWO ON SQUADRON
Chapter Six ‘ENOUGH TO FRIGHTEN THE DEVIL OUT OF US!’ First Operation 73
Chapter Seven ‘THERE’S A BLOODY DUCK IN MY BED!’ Squadron life 80
Chapter Eight ‘A DEADLY SERIOUS AND DANGEROUS GAME’ Operations 109
Chapter Nine ‘OUR BOMB DROPPED RIGHT INTHE MIDDLE’ First Tour 150
Chapter Ten ‘WITH ENGINES - OR NO ENGINES’ OTU: Part Two 171
Chapter Eleven ‘YOU CAN CALL ME MEIER’ The German defence 176
Chapter Twelve ‘HE SHOULDN’T HAVE JOINED IF HE COULDN’TTAKE A JOKE’ 194
Morale
vii
PARTTHREE THE CHOP
ChapterThirteen THE ‘BIG cmr Battle over Berlin 207
Chapter Fourteen ‘OUR WORST HEADACHE’ The Transportation Plan 251
Chapter Fifteen ‘RATHER LIKE HAVING MISSED THE LAST BUS HOME ֊֊
BUT MUCH MORE FINAL’ The dangers and trauma of a ‘final’ operation 260
PART FOUR EVASION
Chapter Sixteen T SET ABOUT PADDLING FOR THE SHORE’ Evasion by sea 287
Chapter Seventeen ‘NOTTHE MOST POPULAR PERSON IN THE REGION’ Evasion by land 293
PART FIVE THE CAMPS
Chapter Eighteen ‘1 TOLD YOU IT WASN’T A SPITFIRE’ Dulag Lsuft 3 15
Chapter Nineteen ‘VERMIN-FREE WITH ABOUT FORTY PRISONERS TO A ROOM’ Stalag Luft III, Sagan 340
Chapter Twenty ‘THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD’ The Long Marches 377
Chapter Twenty One MS GOD MY CO-PILOT?’ The haunted many 394
Epilogue 399
Conclusions 405
The Crews 408
Chapter notes 412
Sources and Bibliography 440
Index of Personnel
443
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