A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War TwoDundurn, 1 de jan. de 2003 - 490 páginas During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high. German fighters and anti-aircraft guns took a terrifying toll. The chances of surviving a tour of duty as a bomber crew were almost nil. Murray Peden's story of his training in Canada and England, and his crew's operations on Stirlings and Flying Fortresses with 214 Squadron, has been hailed as a classic of war literature. It is a fine blend of the excitement, humour, and tragedy of that eventful era. |
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... aircraft was at a given moment in time . Fixes varied greatly in reliability depending upon the accuracy of the information on which they were based . A positive fix was a thing of beauty and a joy forever . It was the Holy Grail . It ...
... Aircraft recognition was another gift for everybody . We sat in semi - darkness and wrote down the names of the 40 aircraft whose silhouettes were displayed in leisurely sequence on the screen before us . I had pored over the cards ...
... aircraft we were going to attempt to fly , the DeHavilland 82C Tiger Moth . With a wing span of 29 feet four inches , she was a graceful , rather delicate looking biplane , with a perspex coupe top to cover the two tandem seats . She ...
... aircraft as it came up , in a playful attempt to fly the interloper into the ground . It was not until he had forced the overtaking aircraft to manoeuvre sharply to avoid a collision that he got a good look under the coupe top and made ...
... aircraft ) or ground loops in which a wing tip had dragged . A cadet named Dodwell had some tough luck -he ground looped and ran into another Tiger . We had the odd engine failure — but surprisingly few for the number of hours we were ...
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