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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... half a dozen other survivors , this time with my clothes back on , and was sworn in as a member of the RCAF . Our document folders were marked P / O , indicating that we would , if all went well , be trained as Pilots or Observers ...
... half , and I , who feared and loathed the things , was astonished to find that in our group about one in five simply keeled over and passed out when they got to the big TABT shot , which was third in the stabbing order . Mind you ...
... half hour in the Link . This was extremely important to us potential air - crew , because we knew via the grapevine that when we got to ITS we were going to be tested in many ways to see whether we had the requisite co - ordination and ...
... Half the station was to go two days before Christmas , the other half two days before New Year . Our group was in the first wave . We were to leave the station December 22nd ; our passes would bear that date and were good until midnight ...
... half an hour before we were due to leave the station to catch our train . He explained to the cook that he'd had to make a special trip into town to get it . When the cook had been sufficiently impressed , Strecker made as if to leave ...
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