The Fly by Nights: RAF Bomber Command Stories 1944-45

✍ Scribed by Feesey, Donald W

Publisher: Pen & Sword
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

At the age of eighteen Don Feesey volunteered for pilot training with the RAF. Having almost completed his course to become a fighter pilot, an eye problem was detected and he was switched to navigational training. He completed a tour of thirty-four successful operations, the majority at night during 1944 and 1945 - at the height of the bomber offensive. On one remarkable sortie his Lancaster lost all power and the Read more...

Abstract: At the age of eighteen Don Feesey volunteered for pilot training with the RAF. Having almost completed his course to become a fighter pilot, an eye problem was detected and he was switched to navigational training. He completed a tour of thirty-four successful operations, the majority at night during 1944 and 1945 - at the height of the bomber offensive. On one remarkable sortie his Lancaster lost all power and the order to bale out was given. As the aircraft gradually lost altitude, making a safe parachute descent more impossible by the second, Don was about to jump when the pilot, still at t

✦ Subjects

Feesey, Donald W.;World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.;Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force. -- Bomber Command.;World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.;Lancaster (Bomber);Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force -- Biography.;Flight navigators, Military -- Great Britain -- Biography.;Great Britain -- Royal Air Force -- Bomber Command.;Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force.;Flight navigators, Military.;Military operations, Aerial -- British.;Great Britain.

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