An updated and expanded photographic history of the famed military
aircraft—and the men who flew them. Aviation historian Norman
Franks updates his classic book, The Lancaster, with new information
and photos. The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine heavy bomber that
played a crucial role in World War II, and this illustrated volume
records the history of thirty-five of them, supported by stories from
aircrew members. The most famous of the bombers is “Queenie”
(W5868), the only one of these Lancasters that survives, now in the
Bomber Command Hall at the Royal Air Force Museum in London. Ton-Up
Lancs delves into some of the controversies surrounding Queenie and
other Lancasters, and also includes detailed listings of each raid
these thirty-five Lancasters flew during from 1942 through 1945,
together with the names of the pilot and crew that took them on
sorties all over Hitler’s Third Reich and Northern Italy, on support
missions before and after D-Day in June 1944, and attacks on V1 rocket
launch sites situated in Northern France. The book also offers a view
from one of the Lancaster’s former skippers on what it was like to
fly a bomber tour of operations in Bomber Command.
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A Photographic History of the Thirty-Five RAF Lancasters that Each Completed One Hundred Sorties
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781908117472
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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