Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940-1945
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Patrick Bishop. Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940-1945
PATRICK BISHOP. Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940–1945
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Fighter Boys. Saving Britain 1940. Patrick Bishop
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Prologue: The White Hart
1 Sportsmen and Butchers
2 Fighters versus Bombers
3 ‘Free of Boundaries, Free of Gravity, Free of Ties’
4 The Fatal Step
5 Winter of Uncertainty
6 Return to the Western Front
7 The Battle of France
8 Dunkirk
9 Doing It
10 Before the Storm
11 The Channel Battle
12 The Hun
13 Hearth and Home
14 Attrition
15 Brotherhood
16 ‘The Day Had Been a Year’
17 Autumn Sunset
18 Rhubarbs and Circuses
Epilogue: The Last Note
Notes and References. Prologue: The White Hart
1. Sportsmen and Butchers
2. Fighters versus Bombers
3. ‘Free of Boundaries, Free of Gravity, Free of Ties’
4. The Fatal Step
5. Winter of Uncertainty
6. Return to the Western Front
7. The Battle of France
8. Dunkirk
9. Doing It
10. Before the Storm
11. The Channel Battle
12. The Hun
13. Hearth and Home
14. Attrition
15. Brotherhood
16. ‘The Day Had Been a Year’
17. Autumn Sunset
18. Rhubarbs and Circuses
Epilogue: The Last Note
Index
P.S
Portrait
SNAPSHOT. BORN
EDUCATED
CAREER
Top Ten Favourite Reads
Life Drawing
A Critical Eye
The Bigger Picture
Have You Read?
If You Loved This, You’ll Like… GENERAL
PLACES AND SQUADRONS
PLANES
PEOPLE
Find Out More. PLACES/MUSEUMS
FILMS
WEB
Praise for Fighter Boys
Dedication
Contents
Maps
Prologue: PERKINS
Introduction After the Whirlwind
1 Learning the Hard Way
2 Coventrated
3 ‘To Fly and Fight’
4 Crewing Up
5 Dying in the Dark
6 Enter ‘Butch’
7 The Feast of St Peter and St Paul
8 The Reasons Why
9 The Battle
10 ‘A Select Gang of Blokes’
11 The Big City
12 The Chop
13 Crack Up
14 Home Front
15 Love in Uniform
16 D-Day Diversion
17 Tallboys and Tirpitz
18 Götterdämmerung
19 Forgetting
Epilogue WENT THE DAY WELL?
Notes. PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
EPILOGUE
Bombers
Index
Acknowledgements
Q and A
LIFE at a Glance
TOP TEN Favourite Reads
Have You Read?
If You Loved This, You Might Like…
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About the Author
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The following day he set off at dawn with a novice pilot, Lieutenant Donald Inglis, who had yet to shoot anything down, to show him how it was done. They ran into a two-seater over the German lines. Mannock began shooting, apparently killing the observer, and left the coup de grâce for his pupil, who set it on fire. Instead of climbing away as his own rules demanded, Mannock turned back over the burning aircraft, flying at only 200 feet. Inglis ‘saw a flame come out of the right hand side of his machine after which he apparently went down out of control. I went into a spiral down to fifty feet and saw the machine go straight into the ground and burn.’19
Mannock’s self-prophecy had been fulfilled. The bullets that brought him down appear to have come from the ground, a danger he had constantly warned against. He was credited with destroying seventy-four German aircraft by the time he died, nearly reaching the eighty victims recorded by his German opposite number, Richthofen.
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