Gordon Thorburn: 16 books
More Luck of a Lancaster
109 Operations, 315 Crew, 101 Killed in Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
From 11 June 1943 (the date of Lancaster Mark III EE136 WS/R's first op) to her last with 9 Squadron (on 19 October 1944), eighty-six Lancasters were assigned to Number 9\. Of these, fifty were lost to enemy action, another five crashed at home, three crashed in Russia on the first Tirpitz raid and...
A Century of Air Warfare With Nine (IX) Squadron, RAF
Still Going Strong
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
n the earliest days of World War One, when IX Squadron was formed, we went to the fight in little 50mph machines that were barely capable of taking pilot and observer, a gun and a few small, hand-held bombs into the sky, especially on a windy day. When we took a wireless set, to spot for the artillery...
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