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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... crews faced formidable odds , odds seldom appreciated outside the Command . At times in the great offensives of 1943 and 1944 the short - term statistics foretold that less than twenty - five out of each one hundred bomber crews ...
... crew absolutely nothing about impending moves , they scented opportunity . First they told all the cooks that someone had seen our posting orders and that we were moving to the Saskatoon ITS on March 15th . After this rumour had gone ...
... crew became entitled to wear , and were required to wear , a white flash in the front of their wedge caps . We were very proud of our white flashes . Subsequently some of us experienced a slight loss of self confidence when it came out ...
... crew on sentry go all this week . " The closest the sentry came to us along the wire , we noted , was a point about 20 yards to our right . Then he reversed course and tramped about 100 yards the other way with his back to us . He ...
... crew paladin Flight Sergeant Glaves , who would undoubtedly have played down the incident and simply dismissed it by roaring : " There'll be no bastard snorting ! " The Work Parade sessions were not too onerous in fact on two of the ...
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