Fermeture estivale du 1er août inclus au 22 août 2023

BATTLE UNDER THE MOON/MAILLY LE CAMP GOODALL . CRY162

BATTLE UNDER THE MOON

The disastrous RAF raid on Mailly-le-camp, 1944

Jack CURRIE

2022, 184 pages, format 13 x 20, 16 pages de photos NB, texte en anglais.

15,00 €

Descriptif

This is a gripping account of the ill-fated RAF raid, on 3 May 1944, on the Panzer tank depot and military barracks at Mailly-le-Camp south of Rheims in northern France, part of the softening up process on German military targets, in preparation for the D-Day landings. Raids like this over occupied France were considered relatively low risk affairs and only counted for one third of a mission for the crews concerned.

In total, 362 RAF bombers, Lancasters, Mosquitoes and Halifax, from bases in England took part in a raid and although no-one involved anticipated disaster, forty-two Lancasters never returned home. Almost incredibly, those who planned the attack were apparently unaware that four German night fighter bases were located nearby. Luftwaffe fighters wreaked havoc on the bombers as they circled a marker in bright moonlight awaiting the order to attack their target

This is the story of that battle, bitterly contested and ever-remembered by those who were engaged, one among hundreds that were fought in the skies over Europe between the RAF’s bombers and the Luftwaffe’s night-fighters in the course of World War Two. It lasted less than sixty minutes but cost two hundred and fifty-five lives.

Les avis sur le produit BATTLE UNDER THE MOON/MAILLY LE CAMP GOODALL

BATTLE UNDER THE MOON/MAILLY LE CAMP GOODALL
Ajouter au panier

En savoir plus
Accepter