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Author Kaplan, Philip (Philip I.), author

Title Combined round the clock bombing offensive : attacking Nazi Germany : rare photographs from wartime archives / Philip Kaplan with Jack Currie
Published Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2014
[Place of publication not identified] : Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, LLC

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Description 1 online resource : chiefly illustrations
Series Images of war
Images of war
Contents The hardware; country folk; dinghy, dinghy; mud and muscle; aircrew; a british raid; daylight raiders; abandon!; to the big city; round the clock; war paint
Summary In World War Two, the most effective fighting units were usually small - submarine crews, infantry platoons, commandos, and bomber crews. Of these it could be said that the men who crewed the bombers caused more damage to the enemy and had a greater impact on the outcome of the conflict than any number of the rest. Most of the aircrews were volunteers (in the RAF, they all were), intelligent, fit, and highly trained. Each knew he was essential to the team; he knew that a mistake by anyone could mean the death of all. Their interdependence was a welding influence. This library of rare archive
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed June 24, 2015)
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British -- Pictorial works
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Pictorial works
Bombing, Aerial -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
HISTORY -- Military -- Worl War II.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Bombing, Aerial
Military operations, Aerial -- American
Military operations, Aerial -- British
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1945 -- Pictorial works
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Pictorial works
History
Form Electronic book
Author Currie, Jack, author
ISBN 9781473861022
1473861020
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