THE REICH INTRUDERS-RAF LIGHT BOMBER RAIDS IN WWII Delai:3 semaines PSB551

Name: The reich intruders-raf light bomber raids in wwii
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Price: 24.00 EUR

THE REICH INTRUDERS

RAF light bomber raids in world war II

Martin w. BOWMAN

2019, 256 pages, format 15,5 x 23, photos NB, texte en anglais.

24,00 €

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This is the story of 2 Group RAF during World War II. Much of it is told by the men who flew the Blenheim, Boston, Mitchell and Mosquito aircraft that carried out many daring daylight and night-time raids on vitally important targets in Nazi-occupied Europe and germany.

These were not the famous 1,000 bomber raids that hit the wartime headlines, but low-level, fast moving surprise attacks flown by small formations of fleet-footed and skilfully piloted twin-engine medium bombers. Their targets were usually difficult to locate and heavily defended because of their strategic importance to the enemy.

From the very start of the war, the men and machines of 2 Group were at the forefront of the RAF's offensive. On 3 september 1939, the day war broke out, a Blenheim from 2 Group carried out the first british operational sortie to cross the German frontier in the Second World War. The following day saw the Group's Blenheims make the first british bombing attack of the war.