The Crew: Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew By David Price
The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war's end. Gloucestershire-born bomb aimer Ken Cook, hard-bitten Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator Don Bowes, Upper Gunner George Widdis, Tail Gunner 'Jock' Bolland, Flight Engineer Ken Randle and Radio Operator Roy Woollford were seven ordinary young men living in extraordinary times, risking their lives in freedom's cause in the dark skies above Hitler's Reich.
The crew's wartime experiences with human sympathy allied to a secure technical understanding of one of the most iconic RAF aircraft are described from their earliest beginnings - in places as far away as a Cotswold village and the suburbs of Sydney The dramatic drama and anxiety of individual missions - to Kassel, Munich and Augsburg as well as Berlin - is evoked with a thrilling immediacy while military events and strategic decisions that drove the RAF's area bombing campaign against The Nazi.
Format - Paperback.
448 pages.
Language - English
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